Title: Far from quieting
Attributed date: 2004
Attributed to: Walid Raad

Yasser Arafat, leader of the PLO, is said to have never slept in the same bed two nights in a row. Having survived more than forty assassination attempts, he could not afford to throw caution to the wind, and so he lived—and slept—on the move.

 

I have spent the last thirty years searching for the houses and beds where Arafat is said to have slept. This search has yielded a series of drawings and paintings of bedrooms —drafts that I cannot seem to complete.

 

Here, I display eleven of these drafts.