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Container for a precarious record

Zahra Komeylian

April 12, 2019 - May 11, 2019

Essay by Marina Fathalla

Opening Reception: Friday, April 12,
7-10 pm

Zahra Komeylian

April 12 – May 11 2019

Opening Reception: Friday, April 12,
7-10 pm

Zahra Komeylian

Download essay by Marina Fathalla

Container for a precarious record explores the propensity of wax as a material for record-keeping. This work examines the internalized disciplines and postures of the viscera and limbs, shaped by the discursive institutional forces acted upon the social body. Utilizing process-based intervention with performance ephemera, found metal, and text, this work is a meditation on the tensions produced and augmented by the body’s negotiation with agency and docility, safety and containment.

Documenntation by Polina Teif