“33 Songs, 99 Words”. by Sawsan Al Bahar
Date:
Monday 11 Sep, 2023
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Thursday 11 Jan, 2024
Time:
10:00 a.m.
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07:00 p.m.
Venue:
Block E, 2nd Floor, Maraya Art Centre, Al Qasba,
Sharjah,
United Arab Emirates
Dubai-based Syrian artist Sawsan Al Bahar presents a large-scale, multimedia installation with 330 printed sheets representing songs inherited from her father over the past 33 years, giving her a sense of belonging and sensibility. The songs remain an obscure and highly personal collection; the patterns only reveal visual poetry and music, thereby immortalizing the ephemerality of music and paying tribute to the power of individual and collective memory.
By taking a scalpel to the lyrics and words that make up these songs, Al Bahar dissects how we usually experience music and song; through phrases that linger, through moments of melody, through sequence, form and repetition.
