Nisrine Boukhari
& Riiko Sakkinen:
East West Banana SplitAll Art Now, Damascus
June 2012
iThe East is used by Europeans in reference to the Orient and Asian societies.
The West refers to the capitalist countries in Europe and North America.
A banana split is an ice cream-based dessert. In its classic form it is served in a long dish called a boat. A recent fatwā bans women eating bananas because of having a too phallic form.
