pt II

Responding to the Lebanese Emigrant statue—created in Mexico in the late 1970s, with numerous replicas placed worldwide, including a monumental version installed at Beirut’s port in 2003—Al Solh presents a glazed ceramic sculpture that surveys the viewer from the gallery’s windowfront. Depicting a female traveler instead of a male figure, the piece features a naked woman standing in a shell-like boat called “time” in Arabic. The voyager proudly displays the nail polish on her bare toes, a knee bent as if captured in the act of deliberately moving forward. She pulls behind her a modern carry-on suitcase.