something vague and irrational,
retreat (Sulaïman Majali & Camara Taylor),
Celine Gallery, Glasgow, 2019
something vague and irrational illustrates and/or points to the feelings (as facts), frustrations and propositions that initiated retreat, an ongoing collaborative endeavour between Sulaïman Majali and Camara Taylor.
screaming by citation; lol ur so drama, 2019, Camara Taylor
2 channel video installation; a precarious hanging; black cling; post-it; text; Auld Lang Syne by The Black on White Affair; A Scottish Landscape by Robert S.Duncanson 1871; African and Caribbeans in Scotland: A socio-geographical study by June Evans 1997; William Davidson and rumours of quartering and quicklime.
2 channel video installation; a precarious hanging; black cling; post-it; text; Auld Lang Syne by The Black on White Affair; A Scottish Landscape by Robert S.Duncanson 1871; African and Caribbeans in Scotland: A socio-geographical study by June Evans 1997; William Davidson and rumours of quartering and quicklime.
"that my dear old mother would never know me", 2019, Sulaïman Majali
Digital print of Robert Scott Lauder’s painting of David Roberts 1840 (in Arab Dress) without side whiskers, paste; faux gilded frame, mirror, paintings of the Prophet’s Mosque and the Grand Mosque of Makkah
Digital print of Robert Scott Lauder’s painting of David Roberts 1840 (in Arab Dress) without side whiskers, paste; faux gilded frame, mirror, paintings of the Prophet’s Mosque and the Grand Mosque of Makkah
Within retreat, both are thinking and questioning the fallout and reverberations through time of ongoing catastrophe(s). Concerned with the implicit failings of research, praxis and (a lack of) practice; retreat floats amidst the outlines of absences; which become trace, gesture and evidence of that which has been expelled, or refuses to be held in the archive.
Photo: Sulaïman Majali
Photo: Sulaïman Majali