The artist Ridikkuluz has opened a solo exhibition titled Klab at Salma Sarriedine gallery in New York, a body of new paintings in which the dog becomes a symbol of military violence against Palestinians. Klab is the Arabic word for dogs, used here as an insult turned back on the perpetrators it depicts. The show is reviewed in Hyperallergic by critic Daniel Larkin. The paintings portray Israeli soldiers as vicious dogs inflicting atrocities on Palestinians and other people of Southwest Asia and North Africa. The imagery draws on widely reported accounts of the Israeli military's use of attack dogs, including their deployment in prisons and raids, which have drawn international condemnation. Within the show, the dog functions as a recurring emblem of an occupation the artist frames as ongoing and unrestrained. The exhibition opens with a darkly satirical note. In Ya Kalb (tribute to Al-Zaidi) (2026), former United States president George W. Bush appears as a Sunday painter with a loafer stuffed in his mouth, painting a white poodle with glowing blue eyes. The image alludes to the 2008 incident in which Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi threw his shoes at Bush during a press conference in Baghdad. Larkin notes that the possessed poodle is, ironically, the most docile dog in the entire show. Elsewhere, Ridikkuluz reworks one of art history's most famous depictions of state violence. Youre Next - the Fifteenth of May (2026) adapts Francisco de Goya's The 3rd of May 1808 in Madrid, recasting its scene of execution as a commemoration of 15 May 1948, the date marking the start of the Nakba, during which an estimated 700,000 Palestinians were displaced, dispossessed or killed amid the formation of the state of Israel between 1947 and 1949. The painting folds a canonical image of resistance into the Palestinian historical narrative the exhibition insists on keeping visible.