Shaqayeq Arabi “Dancing on Stilts”

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signs and symbols presents Dancing on Stilts, a solo exhibition by artist Shaqayeq Arabi. The exhibition features a site-specific installation composed of found objects and natural, symbolic material, combining sculpture with painterly elements to allude to shifting relationships between representation and abstraction, memory and materiality, structure and sensation.

With Dancing on Stilts, Arabi continues an ongoing series of works entitled ‘On Stilts’, a series of precariously balanced structures that examine the tension between the discomfort of disequilibrium and the motivation to stand erect and independent, in circumstance otherwise wrought with uncertainty, precarity, and peril. To be in the world is to live immersed in a milieu of opposing forces within and around oneself; To accept these forces implies an acceptance of indeterminacy that both stems from and is a place of strength. Through her acts of the display of this precarity, Arabi not only accepts but embraces the conditions in which she lives. Natural materials, including sticks, bamboo, and twigs, have resonance for the artist, often serving as the artist’s primary medium; each of these materials have innate qualities of flexibility and strength, without any a priori subservience to use value. The material’s ability to adapt, change, and resist unyielding signification presents an image of strength not bound by restrictions or absolutes. This material polyvalence reveals the nature of this strength.

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Schedule

from March 14, 2020 to April 11, 2020

Opening Reception on 2020-03-14 from 18:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Shaqayeq Arabi

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