Tramway
Jala Wahid - Conflagration
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Free - Drop-in - no ticket required
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Saturday 24th Jun - Sunday 10th Sept 2023
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Wednesday - Friday 12 to 5pm
Saturday 12 to 6pm
Sunday 12 to 5pm
A new body of work exploring the relationship between Britain and Kurdistan, through the lens of oil. The installation approaches oil as the symbolic material through which nationalism, statelessness, colonialism and Kurdish identity are explored.
Jala Wahid makes work that touches on urgent issues in relation to identity, nationhood, diasporic living and intergenerational legacies. She considers how politics and poetic expression interweave. Wahid looks to embody this intertwining in her work by exploring its urgency, defiance, euphoria and violence to suggest ways of being that challenge fixed definitions of identity.
In Conflagration, Wahid invites us to step into a landscape conceived as an inferno. It is unclear whether we’re beneath the ground in an oil well, amidst the burning refineries, or within columns of smoke resulting from gushers or oil fires during conflict and war. The installation comprises a light sculpture, a monumental sculpture of a Salvia spinosa flower- endemic to Kurdistan - and an audio work which includes a funereal maqma melody, recordings of oil drilling rigs, and Wahid’s own voice.
Conflagration is Wahid’s first institutional solo exhibition and her first in Scotland. It is a co-commission with Baltic, Gateshead and has previously been exhibited there.
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