NICOLE BARAKAT
’WE ARE INFINITE’
1 MARCH – 7 APRIL, 2018
Nicole Barakat, We will return home, silk embroidered hand cut lamé on cotton velveteen, 2018. Photography by Document Photography.
Nicole Barakat, We will heal in the now. silk, wool, linen, cotton, lame, 75cm, 2018. Photography by Document Photography.
ARTIST STATEMENT
We are infinite is a collection of textile works responding to objects held in the Nicholson Museum from the artist’s ancestral homelands in the South West Asia and North Africa (SWANA) region. The artist presents the artworks as a series of visual manifestations of her process of listening and engaging in intuitive conversations with the museum objects.
Nicole Barakat, We are infinite, installation view, dimensions variable, 2018. Photography by Document Photography.
The exhibition critically considers connections between the violence of colonialism (under which many museum objects were acquired) and the current states of violence in the SWANA region and beyond.
Barakat says, my process and the resulting works as affirmations of the strength of our continuing, living cultures, stories and ancestral lineages. Nicole will also engage participants in the creation of a large-scale collaborative textile work over the duration of the exhibition.
Nicole Barakat, We transcend time & place, hand cut found paper, 90cm diameter, 2018. Photography by Document Photography.