Speaking the Unfathomable
“Speaking the Unfathomable” originates from my artistic practice and reverts around a few series that I developed over the course of the past decade, all of which connected by a reflection on notions of communication, miscommunication and incommunicability. Delving into archival mechanisms of collection and accumulation on one end, as well as on the circularity and repetitiveness of mnemonic processes, the conceptual frame of these works, as documented by the text, refers to and relies on a sense of unattainability. While the works replicate archival strategies, with their implicit aspiration to preserve, conserve, and eternise the documents entitled to them, they equally reflect on the systemic fallacies of those very programmatic approaches. Situated within the context of the Middle-Eastern fragile present, while also adopting a vantage point on the Gulf region’s growing process of self-legitimation, often at the expenses of an actual freedom of speech, the text –as it reflects on the works– highlights the use, but also the neglect, of a careful documentary acquisition, as more and more voices undergo methodic silencing.