Artists from different cultural horizons converge in different ways upon the issue of story-telling, looking at ways in which the world can be rethought. The artists employ vignettes of daily life to build a more intimate narrative, recovering a unique form of memory and creating the conditions where we can reflect on daily experience as something contemporaneous.
Fatima Al-Banawi and her project The Other Story are a work in progress, developing through each successive presentation as she records accounts of daily life using different support structures. Gabriela Golder proposes a series of narratives contributed by unemployed workers who enshrine the hopes of recovering their jobs in the memories of their working days. Ayman Zedani seeks to build a new “ecological community” founded on a large collection of stones which command us like witnesses from different pasts. Faisal Samra seeks to capture the memory of space left in a clenched fist by recording it in sun-baked clay, a metaphor for the preservation of life’s essential elements.
