Come, let me heal your wounds. Let me mend your damaged bones
Palestinian-Arab artist Dana Awartani makes her debut at Venice Artwork Biennale 2024 with an expressive facility of dedication on the medicinal dyed silk. Entitled Come, Let Me Heal Your Wounds. Let Me Mend Your Damaged Bones, the set up explores how battle and terrorism regularly result in the destruction of historic and cultural websites within the Arab world. She visually interprets that endless tragedy by bodily increasing the paintings, including extra layers and materials.to make room for newer documentation,' notes author and researcher Saira Ansari.
Come, let me heal your wounds. Let me mend your damaged bones, 2024 | reinforcement on medicinal dyed silk, 520 × 1250 × 297 cm | picture © Marco Zorzanello, courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia
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For a few years, Dana Awartani (see extra Right here) delved into the craftsmanship of indigenous communities within the Center East and India, primarily searching for the knowledge and information of artisans to complement their work. For this particular exhibition on the Venice Artwork Biennale, the artist makes use of this data to replicate on the mass destruction witnessed in Gaza final October; bombings and bulldozers flattening homes and hospitals and locations of worship on a month-to-month and indiscriminate foundation. Assembled in a collection of yellow and purple hanging materials, the set up marks these devastated locations by tearing holes throughout meters of silk.
Dana Awartani makes her debut on the Venice Artwork Biennale | picture © designboom
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“Then she would curse—a fading follow that’s extra intimate however understated in comparison with mosaic—every tender minimize as a gesture of therapeutic; the ensuing scars symbolize the bodily and emotional ones left behind in actuality world, continued Ansari. 'The material is dipped in pure natural and spice based mostly dyes which have medicinal worth, utilizing the sacred therapeutic properties embedded within the conventional textile dyeing practices of Kerala, which Awartani has hung out studying. You may catch Vino, let me heal your wounds. Let me mend your damaged bones on the Arsenal as a part of the Biennale's major exhibition: Strangers from in all places – Foreigners In every single place.
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picture © Marco Zorzanello, courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia
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