PAST

Named after an ongoing series of floor installations and paintings, Standing by the Ruins presents three key moments: remembrance, healing and forgetting. Each work suggests a shifting relationship with the present and simultaneously with what is absent, rooted within a practice which Awartani describes as being as much about the story of how it is made as the finished work. Throughout, she honours traditional craft techniques – from darning to adobe building methods – working with skilled artisans and using locally sourced materials in work steeped in historical and visual references from Islamic and Arab art-making traditions.

Dana Awartani: Standing by the Ruins is presented in collaboration with Arnolfini, Bristol.

Images courtesy of Dana Awartani and Towner Eastbourne. Photography by Rob Harris.