Manal AlDowayan
Laughter, 2013
Archival Giclée Prints on Hahnemule paper disect mounted into strips with acrylic lettering. 135 × 107 × 2 cm.
Edition 3/3 + 2AP
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In her execution, Manal uses typical media images that she has collected over the past two years and place descriptions that have always been linked to the persona of the woman. Love, courage, happiness, and intelligence. Creating a struggle between the word and the images they lay on. They are awkwardly linked to each other highlighting the negligence in how women are portrayed and the danger of continuously evoking this imagery. There is a danger of instigating what Nietzsche termed “active forgetting” by continuing to repeat an inclusive grouping at the cost of the unique individual.