Blue Line Painting

The main concept of Sara Ghazi work is ruins or more specifically abandoned places. Ruins as palimpsests of past civilization, disintegrated structures often created by war. Ruins may also be abandoned places that signal absence and presence simultaneously: the intersection of the visible and invisible. Fragmented and decayed, no longer serving their original purposes, they point to a loss and an invisible significance. Though they are no longer what they once were, the visible presence of the ruins also points to a kind of endurance. The theme of dystopia is important to her work; that theme relates to an undesirable or frightening place which appears in fictional works, particularly those set in the future. Dystopias are often categorized by dehumanization, environmental disaster, and/or other aspects of cataclysmic decline. From both literary and historical viewpoints, dystopia is often identified with the failed utopian vision of 20th century totalitarianism.