Embedded Files
These pages present a selection of porcelain and stoneware postcards
on show at Konzertgalerie Maison44 in Basel, Switzerland, in February 2026.
Refaat Alareer to The White House
Refaat Alareer to The White House
Refaat Alareer was a Palestinian writer killed in an Israeli strike on December 6, 2023, along with several members of his family. The lines quoted in this imaginary message are by the Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha, published in Forest of Noise, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2024.
Stoneware, 2025
Emergency to Dr. Al-Sahar
Emergency to Dr. Al-Sahar
Emergency is an Italian anti-war NGO providing medical assistance in Gaza and elsewhere. In this imaginary world, the postcard has been returned to the sender because the doctor is dead and the hospital where he worked inaccessible. In point of fact, Dr. Ahmad Al Sahar was killed in an Israeli strike on Al Awda Hospital on November 21, 2025.
Porcelain, 2025
Walter Benjamin to Benjamin Netanyahu
Walter Benjamin to Benjamin Netanyahu
In this imaginary space, Walter Benjamin writes to Benjamin Netanyahu, quoting from the English poet Ted Hughes's Tales from Ovid, his retelling in verse of a selection of myths presented by Ovid in Metamorphoses.
Porcelain, celadon glaze, 2025
Franz Kafka to Walter Benjamin
Franz Kafka to Walter Benjamin
Here we find a postcard sent by Franz Kafka to Walter Benjamin, citing a 1916 poem by Osip Mandelštam, Petropolis.
Porcelain, celadon glaze, 2025
Serena Vicari to Phil Haddock
Serena Vicari to Phil Haddock
In a series of postcards we find traces of a lifelong love story, remembered in fragments of songs, here by Pino Daniele.
Porcelain, 2025
Phil Haddock to Serena Vicari
Phil Haddock to Serena Vicari
Another excerpt from a song by Pino Daniele. Porcelain, 2025
An imaginary letter from Francesca Albanese to the silent consumers of genocide in Gaza, quoting a passage from Dr. Martin Luther King's
Letter from a Birmingham Jail – with a twist: in place of Atlanta we find Geneva, and Palestine replaces Birmingham. Dr. King wrote the letter while incarcerated in the Birmingham city jail in April, 1963.
The stamps are historic Italian marks, while the postmark cites the date of a terrorist attack at Piazza Fontana in Milan on December 12, 1969. Italian courts have ruled that the bombing, which killed 17 and wounded 88, was carried out by the neo-fascist group known as Ordine Nuovo, "New Order".
Slip-cast porcelain, 2025.
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