Ania Soliman: terraform
ANIA SOLIMAN
terraform
August 25, 2022 – January 2, 2023
beirut
A.S. terraform: press text 4
The bamboo plants in fluorescent yellow use that annotation system to mimic technical drawings designed by humans to mass-produce artificial bamboos in plastic or cloth. The artificial plants represent the kind of irrational and manic overproduction that threatens the earth, yet they also reflect our desire for nature even in its most alienated manifestations.
Interestingly, some of the works’ titles are created in collaboration with a random word generator algorithm, while for others, Soliman uses machine mistranslations from Arabic, such as Chemical Emotions (kahraba), Resurrecting Light (kahraba), Shaking the Nerves of Animals (kahraba) etc...
A.S. terraform: Works - Spray paintings
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![Ania Soliman, cockade-defect-snifter (radiance) [Witnesser 5], 2022, Spray paint on canvas, 180 x 140 x 2 cm](https://www.sfeir-semler.com/sites/default/files/styles/1_nms_images_gridview_1920_/public/2022-08/AS_cockade-defect-snifter%20%28radiance%29%20%5BWitnesser%205%5D_2022_Spray%20aint%20on%20canvas_180x140x2cm_.jpg?itok=zcil3sj6 "Ania Soliman, cockade-defect-snifter (radiance) [Witnesser 5], 2022, Spray paint on canvas, 180 x 140 x 2 cm")
Ania Soliman, cockade-defect-snifter (radiance) [Witnesser 5], 2022, Spray paint on canvas, 180 x 140 x 2 cm