YARA MEKAWEI: HOLY 204 @ TOPOGRAPHIES OF SOUND

  • Exhibition
  • Sound Installation
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YARA MEKAWEI: HOLY 204 @ TOPOGRAPHIES OF SOUND

  • Exhibition
  • Sound Installation

With works by Yara Mekawei

ŠKUC Gallery, Ljubljana

The sound installation Holy 204 will be presented at the international sound art festival Topographies of Sound in Slovenia. The installation was originally commissioned by the DAAD Artists-Berlin program and produced for an exhibition at the daadgalerie as part of this year’s edition of MaerzMusik.
In Holy 204, Yara Mekawei works with Sufi poems by philosophers from the tenth and thirteenth centuries, Ibn al-Farid and Al-Hallaj. Translated into combinations of numbers, these poems serve as the basis for her sound compositions and 3D-sculptures—a translation process that not only adds another layer of meaning to the multifaceted wisdom of the past, but also brings it to life for the present.

Yara Mekawei was a DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program fellow in 2021/2022.

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