Dislocated Conversations
2023 / 72 x 78 inches / 14 : 56 minutes
Used tea bags, red cotton thread, pine wood and multichannel video projection
‘Dislocated Conversations’ installation for the exhibition ‘Matter as Fallen Light’ curated by Keagan Sparks at the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery, New York
Recently focusing her research on French colonialism, coming from a family that lived in the French colonies in Algeria and left around the time of the independence.
This new iteration of the work ‘Dislocated Conversations’ aims to deal, through the personal lens, with the high stakes concepts of colonialism, historical representation, and the transmission or occlusion of history within the ecosystems of family. Inviting the audience to follow her investigation through the personal in relation to communal historiographies materialized in the post-colonial context.
She has been transcribing those research into a multi channel installation layered onto a tea bags screen. The dialogue established between the projected image and the screen made of tea bags (a reference to the shared moments with her family as she interviewed them on the memories they have about this subject) aims to create a third space in which the stories can be materialized.
