SB15 tour: Bait Obaid Al Shamsi
Photos and information of artworks at Bait Obaid Al Shamsi. SB15, 7 February - 11 June 2023. Curator: Hoor Al Qasimi, based on a concept by Okwui Enwezor.
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Speak the Wind. 2015–2020
Inkjet prints on photo paper
At the intersection of conceptual, staged and documentary imagemaking, Hoda Afshar’s lensbased artistic practice explores the representation of gender, marginality and displacement. Speak the Wind (2015–2020), accompanied by a two-channel video installation which is on view in Khorfakkan Art Centre, documents the cultic practice of a healer purging invisible wind currents of a patient through a ritual that many believe was transmitted via the Arab slave trade. The artist thus illuminates the Strait of Hormuz as a contact zone where the collision of cultures has given rise to hybrid traditions.
(Text at the exhibition. © Sharjah Art Foundation)
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© Photo: Haupt & Binder, Universes in Universe
Photos and information of artworks at Bait Obaid Al Shamsi. SB15, 7 February - 11 June 2023. Curator: Hoor Al Qasimi, based on a concept by Okwui Enwezor.