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Tawaf/ Say: Butterfly/ Eagle Painting

Nsenga Knight

United States

Painting, Oil on Canvas

Size: 22.5 W x 22.5 H x 1 D in

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The Tawaf/ Sa’y series is inspired by text from Ali Shariati's memoir Hajj: Reflection on Its Rituals. In his memoir, Shariati (1933-1977) makes the story of Hajjar - a Black woman from whom the Prophet Muhammad and the arabs descend, central to the understanding of the hajj rituals. As a Black Muslim woman artist who often feels marginalized in conversations about Islam, I was drawn to Shariati's memoir because of the way in which he so purposefully centered and elevated her story, even stating that "The rites of Hajj are a memory of Hajar." Tawaf/ Say is a series of 12 text paintings with 3 sub-series variations in material and color, totaling 36.

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Painting:Oil on Canvas

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Size:22.5 W x 22.5 H x 1 D in

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My paintings, drawings, prints, and collaborative social practice projects reference Islamic ritual and cosmology, Black history archives, and personal memoirs. My creative process is grounded in research and experimentation within abstract, documentary and conceptual art traditions. I was born in Brooklyn, NY to parents who immigrated to the US from the Caribbean and South America in the 1970’s as teenagers and converted from Christianity to Islam as young adults, raising me within their new faith and country. Their fluid and willful transitions between place, philosophies, and histories has developed my understanding of the visual world – its nuances and boundaries, and the need to resist, reevaluate, and push beyond its limits. Through the experience of looking at/ participating in my artwork, I am inviting my audiences to embrace new possibilities that challenge traditional boundaries of race, nationhood, and religion; and create wholly new constructions that broaden our collective imaginations. Nsenga Knight was born in 1981 in Brooklyn, New York. She currently lives and works in Cairo, Egypt and New York. Knight has been awarded with a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant, a Southern Constellations Fellowship, the Leeway Foundation Art and Change Grant, and Brooklyn Arts Council grants. She has held artist residencies at BRICworkspace in Brooklyn, NY, the Drawing Center in New York, Elsewhere Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina, the Galveston Artist Residency in Galveston, Texas, Brandywine Workshop in Philadelphia, Film/Video Arts Center in New York, and was a BCAT/ Rotunda Gallery Multimedia Artist in Resident in Brooklyn, NY.

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