Performance | Don’t let the beautiful colors fool you, who would draw Goofy inside the rooms of grownups?

Don’t let the beautiful colors fool you, who would draw Goofy inside the rooms of grownups?

Concept, installation, and performance by Ali Eyal.

Duration: approx. 45 min. 

Language: Arabic with English subtitles.

This performative intervention will take place twice a day (6:30PM & 8PM) at Ashkal Alwan on October 20, 21, and 22.

To reserve, please call us or send an email to: info@ashkalalwan.org.



There are criminals who commit unspeakable acts and yet lead innocent lives, since they are unable to picture what they’ve done. In “Don’t let the beautiful colors fool you, who would draw Goofy inside the rooms of grownups?”, artist Ali Eyal attempts to speak to these criminals’ conscience by infiltrating their private spaces. By way of a revengeful act, he paints the living room walls of his father’s murderer, No Name, with thousands of his victims’ faces, as well as the faces of those that remain missing, so as to expand the medium of drawing through performance. Eyal thus carves out a space between personal memory and collective history, all the while staging fictional encounters and ruminations on the Iraq war and its aftermaths.



Embroidery and tailoring: Diana Cantarey

Special thanks to Bokja and Christian Zahr

Co-produced by Frankfurt LAB, Mousonturm, and Goethe-Institut Lebanon. Production of Frankfurt-Beirut is organized in cooperation with Ashkal Alwan.