After Eight, 2014

After Eight, 2014

A series of embroidery pieces portraying transcribed linguistic models of mixed dialects reflecting the plight of immigrants in their undertaking of language pedagogy. The embroidered fragments of dialects take them out of their vocal and transient spoken context into a fixed and etched state of permanence, weighing them by their own connotations. The series expose the relationship between semantics, phonetics and the role of letters as a visual symbol.
 

All Mother Tongues Are Difficult, 2014, Exhibition view, Sfeir-Semler Gallery Beirut
After Eight (Al Thau), 2014, Hand stitched embroidery on textile, 42 x 60 cm, Unique
After Eight (Beth), 2014, Mixed media, hand stitched embroidery on textile, 50 x 51.5 cm, Unique
After Eight (1 Al Jawafiyeh), 2014, Mixed media, hand stitched embroidery on textile, 35 x 42.5 cm, Unique
Embroidery (Aleph, Aleph), 2014, Mixed media, hand stitched embroidery on textile, 64 x 78 cm, Unique
After Eight (Nun Ka Ka), 2014, Mixed media, hand stitched embroidery on textile, 43.5 x 59 cm, Unique
After Eight (2), 2014, Mixed media, hand stitched embroidery on textile, 43.5 x 59 cm, Unique
After Eight (16 Al-Tau), 2014, Hand stitched embroidery on textile, 41.5 x 59.5 cm, Unique
After Eight (Kaf), 2014, Mixed media, hand stitched embroidery on textile, 49 x 90 cm, Unique

After Eight, 2014, Mixed media: series of hand stitched embroidery on textile, Various dimensions


 

All Mother Tongues Are Difficult, 2014

A series of hand-stitched embroideries that transgress the form of a video still and the white text on black background in silent films in order to register a temporary synthesis of the artists research on the ever changing quality of language in relation to pronunciation, re-formulations and appropriations of expressions.
 

All Mother Tongues Are Difficult (Rasist), 2014, hand stitched embroidery on textile, 36 x 64 cm, Ed. 3 + 2 AP
All Mother Tongues Are Difficult (Merci EU), 2014, Hand stitched embroidery on textile, 36 x 64 cm, Ed. 3 + 2 AP
All Mother Tongues Are Difficult (Mooi/Nice), 2014, Hand stitched embroidery on textile, 36 x 64 cm, Ed. 3 + 2 AP
All Mother Tongues Are Difficult (habby pirthday), 2014, Hand stitched embroidery on textile, 36 x 64 cm, Ed. 3 + 2 AP

All Mother Tongues Are Difficult, 2014, Hand stitched embroideries on textile, 36 x 64 cm