4-8pm, 23-24 January 2021 & 30-31 January 2021 | Princes Park Magazine, Alexandra Battery, Blinking Billy Point | Presented by CONSTANCE ARI for Mona Foma 2021

Making Ground Artist Statements





Shireen Taweel, tracing transcendance, 2018
Copper sculptures, dual-channel video: 10 min, sound: 3 hr 

Shireen Taweel traces the presence of Muslim cameleers in the outback since the 1800s, and considers how the sacred sites and prayer spaces they left behind tell stories that resonate today in contemporary Muslim Australia. Inspired by remote Australian landscapes and Islamic decorative arts, Shireen’s approach is rooted in cross-cultural dialogue. The resulting work is a delicate and meditative intersection of past, present and future.



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CONSTANCE acknowledges and respects the Palawa people as the traditional and ongoing owners and custodians of lutruwita. We pay our respects to elders past, present and future, and acknowledge that sovereignty has never been ceded.


     
Making Ground is presented by CONSTANCE ARI in partnership with Mona Foma, and assisted through Arts Tasmania by the Minister for the Arts.


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