Lawrence Abu Hamdan
4 marzo - 4 julio 2022, Al Mureijah Square, Sharjah Art Foundation, EAU. La mayor exposición individual institucional hasta la fecha. Curador: Omar Kholeif.
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For the Otherwise Unaccounted, 2020
17 vinyl prints on glass and text in printed pamphlet; vinyl prints 282.7 cm x 221.4 cm and 267 x 160 cm, pamphlet 30 x 66 cm
For the Otherwise Unaccounted (2019–2022) draws from research by psychiatrist Dr Ian Stevenson, published in his two-part 1997 monograph, Reincarnation and Biology: The Etiology of Birthmarks. This landmark book, which emerged from fieldwork conducted in Asia, Africa and the Americas, examines myriad claims of reincarnation by examining the corresponding birthmarks on the perceived reincarnated subjects alongside the circumstances of their purported previous lives. The book intertwines the disciplines of narrative literature, forensic analysis, theology and scientific hypothesis. The result is a document of a global community that exists at the threshold of the law. For some, injustice and violence has escaped historical record on account of colonial subjugation, corruption, rural lawlessness and legal amnesty.
For the Otherwise Unaccounted consists of a series of vinyl prints of birthmarks and authored narratives, as documented by Stevenson. The renderings displayed on the windows of Gallery 6 are created by Abu Hamdan from Stevenson’s original photographs. By isolating the birthmarks from their bodies, he seeks to move past the ethnographic representation of these subjects and instead focus on the birthmark as a technology to store testimony that would be otherwise lost. The birthmarks serve as both a physical and archival remnant. It connects bodies across time, in the face of historical erasure—from forced religious conversion to the destruction of language, property and occupation.
© Booklet Lawrence Abu Hamdan: The Sonic Image
Sharjah Art Foundation, 2022
© Photo: Danko Stjepanovic. Courtesy of Sharjah Art Foundation
4 marzo - 4 julio 2022, Al Mureijah Square, Sharjah Art Foundation, EAU. La mayor exposición individual institucional hasta la fecha. Curador: Omar Kholeif.