Aishath Huda: then, it gapes and explodes,
@ Slow Dance
319 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Sunday, November 10th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, December 21st
Slow Dance is excited to announce “then, it gapes and explodes,” a solo exhibition by Aishath Huda. Please join us Sunday, November 10th, for an opening reception from 2-5pm! The exhibition is on view through December 21st.
“I fly over terrains and oceans, dive into ripples and vortexes, crawl with fungi and roots, glide through weather patterns and migrations, and then I stretch, dissect, magnify and distort them to skins, bones, veins and cells. I investigate the relationship between bodies and the environment in local and the ecological terms. As an interdisciplinary artist, I regard water as both a medium and a force; as a thinking and knowing process; as an access point to a more expansive sense of ‘we’. Water is my method.”
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Excerpt from “Facescape”
Observing a face is like observing water A face, like water, has no form.
It folds and multiplies.
It expands and shrinks.
It drops, slumps, soars.
It roars, whimpers and seeps.
The eyes, nose and mouth eventually disappear. Lumps, holes, wrinkles, crevices appear.
The skin shines, puffs, sinks. Like ripples. A watery slowness emanates
Then, it gapes and explodes.
A thing,
mouth stretched wide, too loud, too close.
–Aishath Huda
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