
Adel Abidin
Drift, 2025
Acrylic on canvas
Dimention for all three: 156 x 600 cm
Dimension for each piece: 156 x 200 cm
Triptych, 600 x 156 cm
Each panel: 200 x 156 cm
Dimension for each piece: 156 x 200 cm
Triptych, 600 x 156 cm
Each panel: 200 x 156 cm
Heritage is often seen as solid—a fixed structure preserved through artifacts and stories. But war, displacement, and cultural erasure render it fluid, ungraspable. Drift explores this instability, where history unravels...
Heritage is often seen as solid—a fixed structure preserved through artifacts and stories. But war, displacement, and cultural erasure render it fluid, ungraspable. Drift explores this instability, where history unravels into organic forms that resist definition.
At its center, a broken ship—perhaps Noah’s Ark, perhaps another vessel of myth—floats aimlessly, a symbol of loss and transition. Along the horizon, small black figures move forward, carrying fragments of a past that no longer holds its original shape. Their presence reflects how history is constantly reinterpreted, reshaped, and sometimes lost.
The wreck is not just ruin but a remnant of something once purposeful, now drifting in uncertainty.
This work challenges the idea of heritage as fixed, asking instead: What if memory, like history itself, is always in motion—forever shifting, never at rest?
At its center, a broken ship—perhaps Noah’s Ark, perhaps another vessel of myth—floats aimlessly, a symbol of loss and transition. Along the horizon, small black figures move forward, carrying fragments of a past that no longer holds its original shape. Their presence reflects how history is constantly reinterpreted, reshaped, and sometimes lost.
The wreck is not just ruin but a remnant of something once purposeful, now drifting in uncertainty.
This work challenges the idea of heritage as fixed, asking instead: What if memory, like history itself, is always in motion—forever shifting, never at rest?
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