Dismantled Her...

This is the story of a dismantled woman suffering the idea of being a limited human being. Never being heard or perceived to the fullest. She hopes to be back in her mother’s womb for that was probably the last time she felt safe. This world has tared her into pieces and now she is imagining being back in the womb, feeling safe enough to tell us what she feels and sees but she is drowned in thick liquid and her words are not understandable. She is trying to reach us but all she gets is suffocation.

The artists, a middle eastern woman living the irony of safety away from home, from under the water reaches out to the audience looking at her dismantled and misplaced body parts overshadowed with audience’s reflection in the screen, while The incomprehensive words traveling via water as the medium are being transmitted to the glass by means of a transducer.

The original plan and location for this piece was an abandoned pool in Rockenhausen. The video frames would be projected at the crocked blue bottom of the empty pool, inviting the audience to enter the zone and walk around/over the video and let their shadows distort the motions and be another layer added to the visual aspects. Meanwhile four loudspeakers from each corner of the pool, filles the emptiness of it with the sounds of the woman under the water.

*This piece was supported by Ambient recordings in Munich, who granted a Hydrophone (special microphone for underwater recording) to her for two weeks, free of any charge, to support the art and the artist.