SB15 tour: Al Mureijah Square
Photos and information of artworks at Al Mureijah Square. SB15, 7 February - 11 June 2023. Curator: Hoor Al Qasimi, based on a concept by Okwui Enwezor.
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Murmullo Familiar [family whisper]. 2021–2023
From ‘Liminal Circularity Part 1’, 2021-2023
Multimedia installation
Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation with the support of Pérez Art Museum Miami
María Magdalena Campos-Pons’ practice interweaves autobiographical elements of her Afro-Cuban heritage with historical narratives of the African diaspora. Murmullo Familiar [family whisper] (2021–2023) comprises a multimedia installation and series of paintings. While centring her grandmother of Angolan origin, the paintings reinterpret the Atlantic slave trade route from West Africa to the Caribbean as a site of conscious return and healing. In conversation with these paintings are historical memorabilia and family heirlooms that explore parallel narratives. Alongside beds of red sand collected from Sharjah’s Mleiha desert, a set of glass stools, cast from a crossgenerational heirloom, operate as metaphors of absence, representing those unaccounted for by the ruptures of Afro-Cuban history.
(Text at the exhibition. © Sharjah Art Foundation)
Venue: Gallery 1
© Photos: Haupt & Binder, Universes in Universe
Photos and information of artworks at Al Mureijah Square. SB15, 7 February - 11 June 2023. Curator: Hoor Al Qasimi, based on a concept by Okwui Enwezor.