In Sudan, Pia Tuulia Cäbble revisits the land of Nubian queens and kings…a place with more pyramids than Egypt, and places its grandeur beside the country’s present wounds. The composition intertwines symbols of power, loss, and endurance: the blood flowing from the central figure’s hands transforms into oil, evoking Chevron’s 1970s discovery and the exploitation that followed. Behind her rise the pyramids of Nubia, a testament to Sudan’s forgotten majesty. Her headdress bears the SPLM flag, representing the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement, while the spectral presence of the Lost Boys speaks to generations orphaned by war. Sudan becomes both lament and reclamation - a confrontation with the forces that destabilize nations of immense cultural and spiritual wealth, and an invocation of Sudan’s enduring dignity.