YOU CAN'T HAVE HONEY WITHOUT AN ONION (2023)
Short film and video installation
This video installation is a collaboration with film maker and photographer Rima Sater. The film depicts unknown bodies being highlighted and disguised within tropical settings, accompanied by a soundscape of poetry and deconstructed bossa nova sounds which reflect on the sensations of alienation, nostalgia and longing caused by the experience of displacement. An existential ode to our immigrant Latin and Arab mothers and an oneiric inquiry on what it means to belong. Filmed at Casa Na Ilha residency in Ila Bela, Brazil, in 2019.
The 5 min piece combines Super 8mm film, VHS, chroma-keying and digital video, and is presented as an installation with immersive soundscapes, underwater lighting and projection into a reflective plexiglass tank filled with water.
Forest City Gallery, London, ON, Jan 6 - Feb 7, 2024
Photography by Rachel Long
Read exhibition text- Sweetness Through Water: A melancholic yet buoyant reclamation by Sandi Rankaduwa
Read exhibition review- Kim Neudorf for Akimbo
The Khyber Center for the Arts, Halifax, NS, May 12-June 10, 2023
Photography by Veronica Gutierrez
With the support of Canada Council for the Arts
Made with the support of Canada Council for the Arts