The Perilous Journey III Acquired by the British Museum, 2020. Shown in Reflections: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa, British Museum, 2021.
Three unique handmade concertina artist’s books. Ten linocuts and silk prints on Somerset Satin per volume. 457 x 355 mm.
The same Mousharabiah plate, carved ten times in reduction. The same geometry of protection. Arabesque lattice, privacy, shelter.
In the first volume, the pattern alone. The screen intact. No presence behind it.
In the second, red silhouettes emerge through the geometry. Urgency. The refugees appear, moving, displaced, in transit.
In the third, red then gold. The emergency blanket, the same foil that wraps a marathon runner at the finish line, here wrapping those who have crossed a different kind of distance, exhaustion, and survival.
The screen mutates into a wide geographical map. The steady flow of refugees moves in all directions, like the network of roots and shoots found in a rhizome. No centre. No single direction. No end.
Three books. One journey.
The Perilous Journey III, 2017-2018.
The Perilous Journey II, 2017-2018.
The Perilous Journey I, 2017-2018.
