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A reconstruction of a historical style in gouache on laser-cut card, hand-assembled. This style of Kufic was historically used on a large scale on the walls of monuments from Persia to Transoxiana. To introduce some dimension and evoke the architectural connection while giving it a little contemporary twist, I designed a fully-filled surface made up of three levels of colour, stacking down instead of up (the white is at the bottom and dark blue at the top). The short sentence at the heart of this piece is taken from the Quranic verse Surat al-‘Ankabut (29:46). At the four corners are traditional formulae of praise and glorification. This piece was created as part of a series, on the invitation of the Woolf Institute in Cambridge, for its 2022 exhibition "The Written Word".
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2022
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16 W x 16 H x 1.25 D in
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Joumana Medlej
United Kingdom
I'm a British-Lebanese artist who moved from Beirut to East London about a decade ago. I'm best known for reviving archaic styles of Arabic calligraphy (the Kufi scripts) and the medieval art materials that accompany them. My work reflects my experience of the world as being alive with mystery. It invites the viewer to step into this forgotten space by holding them in wonder and stillness: in this vulnerable moment, when one is silenced by beauty and by not-knowing, remembrance can stir. To this end, the work takes on different shapes, from images of contemplation made up of unreadable words to multisensory interactive objects that tell an unspoken story.
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