Afra Kullu

Who holds the authority to determine what knowledge survives and who can access education?
Slumped porcelain pages resembling rubble lie on a platform echo erased histories and voices silenced—a solemn field of lost knowledge and unwritten narratives. Rubble confronts the devastation of scholasticide, where the loss of academic infrastructure and lives leave Palestinians to continually rewrite their history amid systematic erasure. This work serves as institutional critique, questioning the silence of institutions that fail to condemn these acts, nor question their complicity through investment and research despite protests. Rubble a call to reckon with the violence of erasing knowledge.

This installation presents a children’s school desk, scarred by blown glass forms seared directly onto its surface. The organic, parasite-like glass suggests the invasiveness of scholasticide—the systematic destruction of educational spaces and the lives within them in Palestine. By inflicting visceral damage on an object once emblematic of learning and childhood, this work highlights the violent erasure of knowledge and the killing of students, challenging the viewer to confront the aggression toward those who strive to preserve their history and culture.