Fuse

"Yamani’s work ‘Made in America’ is an embedded video sculpture that aims to encourage debate on what drives narratives of identity. The sculpture takes iconic Islamic designs and significant religious structures and integrates them with a classic American object, namely a Chevelle 1969 Malibu. It is an example of US car-making in a specific, possibly more mono-narrative era. The roof of the vehicle will have the iconic Islamic dome and four minarets built upon it, synthesizing the sculpture into a ‘mobile Mosque’. The work undermines notions of the ‘other’ through the use of familiar objects. The windows of the vehicle will serve as projection surfaces where each window will be individually mapped with its own discreet footage.

"Dawson’s work ‘New Arrivals’ is a 1m high diving board, but it has a boulder that bends the board to the floor. In this new work she creates static tension between the ungraceful boulder at the tip of the board with the sophisticated functions of the diving board that typically displays gymnastics and aerobatic performance into water. The diving board and the rock appear to be caught in the moment before it launches the boulder into the space. In Dawson’s sculptures, she incorporates evidence of changes in urban environments, the politics of public space, and the social inequalities of travel and mobility. She modifies industrial and domestic objects, such as rubbish skips, suitcases, ladders and tables, to juxtapose their form and function."

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