Poetics of Proximity
Artists from Afghanistan, Algeria, Iran, Morocco, Turkey, and Los Angeles: Guggenheim Gallery in Orange, Ca., USA.
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Global Porn. 2002
C-prints. 30 x 40 inches
Statement by the artist:
There is the desire to speak in them, as if everything had to be spoken at the same time, the sounds of all the words simultaneously expressed but remaining intelligible, even to myself. There is a certain automatism about them as I am sure there must be to all true witnessing. Maybe I am wrong, but I am convinced that the body has its own memory banks that the mind does not always use. This for me is the paradox, the pornography of a necessary act that would require of some women to reveal everything, everything in order to really know if they have suffered.
© Photos, text: Lida Abdul
Artists from Afghanistan, Algeria, Iran, Morocco, Turkey, and Los Angeles: Guggenheim Gallery in Orange, Ca., USA.