In Love in Blood, 2023
In Love in Blood, 2023
Image
Continuing her investigation of Arabic language and linguistics, Al Solh presents In Love In Blood. The embroideries on textile each illustrates one word from a list compiled by Ibn Qayyim El Jawziyya, a medieval Islamic theologian who lived in Damascus in the 13th century. The collection of Arabic words includes affection, worship, passion, blood, nostalgia, grief, or folly for example, and catalogues more than 50 ways of expressing love, based on the extent, the level, or the nuance of the emotion.
Within the same line of research, she proposes sound pieces that deconstruct emblematic Arabic love songs by Umm Kulthum, and reinterprets them in different dialects, languages, or accents and at various speaking speeds or intonations. This inquiry expands into a performance which the artist presents in collaboration with Jana Saleh.
