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Fouad Asfour 'working title' installation Wits Art Museum, 30 July – 7 September 2024 The installation working title invites visitors to experience writing processes from unexpected perspectives. It is the final instalment of Asfour’s practice-based creative PhD research project “Un-drawing the Line through Spectrography. Exploring trans-lingual aspects through visual writing”. Visitors are invited to engage in experiences that are located outside of habituated language use by activating spaces of seeing, writing, drawing and doing they carry within themselves. By opening spaces for play and delight, the installation dislocates artworks from their surface and encodes them in glyphs and visual metaphors. Instead of focussing on “making sense”, the installation activates senses towards shared experiences. Thus, it aims to shift conditions of migration, exile or diaspora from the individual towards collective, translingual experiences where multiple identifications can create spaces between the readable and unreadable as “uncommon estrangements” (Sarah Ahmed).

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