S.O.S is a painted embroidered disposable gown textile art work. It is it born from helplessness, from watching in real time how people die without medical care.
In the occupied Palestinian territories, hospitals are direct military targets. UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese concluded in her report Anatomy of a Genocide that there are reasonable grounds to believe that acts of genocide have been committed against the Palestinian population in Gaza, including the deliberate destruction of medical infrastructure. The Geneva Conventions establish explicit protection for hospitals and medical personnel in conflict zones. Israel violates them systematically and on record. The real number of victims far exceeds the official figures.
In Congo, Sudan and Myanmar death does not come from bombing but from the absence of a healthcare system. Humanitarian aid blocked, civilian population abandoned. International humanitarian law obliges all parties to guarantee access to medical care. In these territories that obligation is ignored with total impunity. The media do not report it either. Silence is another form of complicity.
The pattern repeats: bodies die, resources are extracted, those responsible are never held accountable.
S.O.S is a piece of political textile art — the letters painted by hand and sewn with thread, a slow and manual gesture on a disposable garment. A distress signal no one answers.
S.O.S is political textile art and forms part of the Hospital Series by Malimbus Studio, pieces on intervened hospital garments that explore the relationship between the body, health and the institutions that manage or abandon it.
S.O.S is a painted embroidered disposable gown textile art work. Hospital Series, Malimbus Studio
