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Shaya Ishaq | But there are new suns
14 January - 18 February 2023
Elegy for a matriarch whose spirit pulses through soil and rises with the sun, eternally. This is where words meet cloth. This is where the practice of weaving becomes the practice of mourning. This is where textile and text meet each other – a sculpture of colourful double cloth and arching coils, paired with bent wood and dark soil – as a lament for the dead. The matriarch is Ishaq’s grandmother who died in Uganda during the pandemic. When their funerary practice necessitated a quick burial that she could not attend, weaving was the way she could extend the period of mourning.
excerpt from the exhibition text by Deborah Wang
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Shaya Ishaq | But there are new suns
14 January - 18 February 2023
(Texte en anglais seulement disponible)
Elegy for a matriarch whose spirit pulses through soil and rises with the sun, eternally. This is where words meet cloth. This is where the practice of weaving becomes the practice of mourning. This is where textile and text meet each other – a sculpture of colourful double cloth and arching coils, paired with bent wood and dark soil – as a lament for the dead. The matriarch is Ishaq’s grandmother who died in Uganda during the pandemic. When their funerary practice necessitated a quick burial that she could not attend, weaving was the way she could extend the period of mourning.
excerpt from the exhibition text by Deborah Wang
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