NOW!
DEVOTIONAL
LANDSCAPES
@ Selma Feriani | 32 Rue Ibn Nafis Z.I. Kheireddine, La Goulette, 2015 Tunisia
Catalina Swinburn’s exhibition Devotional Landscapes meditates on the spiritual topography of Zawiyas, common centres or shrines of holiness in the Maghreb, and sanctuaries of spiritual and mystical explorations of Sufism. Swinburn’s new body of work straddles both archaeological and contemporary languages; it marks a visual recognition of a geography where architectural notes and landmarks are intertwined in her work.
NOW!
THE
PHOENIX REBIRTH
ON DISPLAY NOW | @selmaferianigallery
Collaborative work by Mohamed Amine Hamouda @mohamed_amine_hamouda & Catalina Swinburn @catalinaswinburnk. Woven paper investiture made from palm leaves and natural pigments of the Oasis of Gabes, engraved with local knitting crochet cloths done by women artisans and gold leaf. | 160 h x 140 w x 45 d cm
“The Phoenix would build its nest at the top of the date palm where the fire of rebirth would eventually rise and burn. From this fire the Phoenix is reborn.”
NOW!
SPOTIFY
Exited to share the launch of Catalina Swinburn in Spotify with the piece NO LAND 'The Water Ceremony'.
The sound piece, specially designed for the premier work to be displayed in Encounters ArtBasel Hong Kong with Selma Feriani, acts as an immersive experience inspired in a poem by Guaman Poma de Ayala (Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (b. c. 1535; d. c. 1615), one of the most polemic and most admired native authors of the colonial period considered a primary source of information on the pre-Columbian Andean world and on the first decades of Spanish colonization. Recorded with the performative action of weaving in the artist studio as part of the ritual to complete this 5 totems journey of this memories of shared cartographies.
The artwork is therefore activated by the artist’s position as both fabricator and performer of the sculpture. This could be seen as a metaphor for resistance, where woven narratives are portrayed as a substitute for the silence of women throughout history.
THE STUDIO
Combining the local crafts with the global trends; and showing how selected geographies share universal and mutual creative affinities.
RECENT EXHIBITIONS
2024 NO LAND THE WATER CEREMONY
Encounters Art Basel
Hong Kong
2023 REVOLUTIONARY MYTHS
Or les Murs, Selma Feriani Gallery,
Fitzrovia Chapel, London, UK.
2022 OPEN BOOK
Public Space Permanent Pavillion,
Plaza Chile, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2022 21,39 AMAKIN
Curated by Venetia Porter,
Jeddah, RK of Saudi Arabia.
2022 UNTITLED II
Selma Feriani Gallery.
Tunis, Tunisia
2022 ARCHIVES FROM THE FUTURE
Selma Feriani Gallery & Aninat Gallery,
Cromwell Place, London, UK
2023 ANALEPSIS
Arcomadrid
@AninatGaleria Booth 7c20
2022 CROWN LETTER
Institute Francais, Kyoto,
Japan in partnership with Goethe Institut Villa Kamogawa & Baron de Lesta
2021 ARCHAIC CONTINGENCY
Selma Feriani Gallery.
Cromwell Place. London.
2018 NARRATIVES OF DISPLACEMENT
Selma Feriani Gallery.
Tunis, Tunisia.
2016 LA FRONTERA PERFECTA
Centro Cultural Matta.
Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2016 FISSURES
Selma Feriani Gallery. Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia 2013 ArqueologÍa Anticipada.
Isabel Aninat Gallery. Santiago de Chile, Chile
PUBLICATIONS
Catalina’s work translate into key messages and universal concerns such as: sustainability, identity, gender equality and globalization underlining the connections of the Global South throughout history.
Matters of Material, Christies London.
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