Monday, March 04, 2013

Ghost.


 
Kadar Attia's Ghost is an enormous installation featuring a group of Muslim women in prayer. The actual bodies of the women are missing, rather, empty shells of clothing bend forward in veneration. The women's cloths are created of tin foil, a domestic material intended to be used and later wasted. According to Saatchi Gallery, Attia chose to render the women in vacant foil robes to imply they are "devoid of personhood or spirit" and "alien." In addition, the work comes to question religion, nationalism, consumerism, and the vulnerable human condition. As Saatchi Gallery describes it, "[Kadar Attia's] impoverished materials suggest alternative histories or understandings of the world, manifest in individual and temporal experience."



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