Katherine Toukhy
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This Body Is Water, 1 & 2/ Gismee Maya, 1 & 2

This Body Is Water, 1 and 2
Installation
2017-2018

In This Body Is Water 1/ "Gismee Maya" 1 (Arabic phonetic spelling), the space was shaped by figurative cut-outs and draped fabric and canvas strips, like a waterfall or river, to convey displacement, grieving, and renewal. The leaping figure floats above organza pieces with my own and collected Arabic and English writings of immigrant women, stitched together and layered.

This Body Is Water. 2/ "Gismee Maya” 2 (Arabic phonetic spelling) was a durational installation, based on ideas of water and migration. Blue signified an emotional space of vulnerability, a liminal space of displacement, and a physical space of the ocean or sea- the connective tissue among continents. During the six weeks of the show, I spent several meditative hours in the gallery writing on the blue walls. I sourced from this partial list of people who have drowned trying to cross the Mediterranean to get to Europe: https://uploads.guim.co.uk/2018/06/19/TheList.pdf

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