When I traveled around the North of Morocco in the 1990's, I was inspired by the relentless work of rural women who gathered wood in huge bundles to take home to their cook stoves. Ever since,  I have been inspired to work with the gesture of gathering wood and the image of a faggot  in paintings and installations that reflect on women's work and divides of corporeal and intellectual labor.

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The exhibition opening on 31 May, 2024 at the Tengier American Legation Museum will feature new, site-specific  works from this project. The opening will feature a collaboration with Moroccan performance artist Ayoub Lahlouh and his "Momkin" collective.

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The exhibition will also be the site for a group exercise in experimental humanities. The exhibition. performance and museum will create a laboratory to explore how viewing is conditioned by touch and collective action.

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I am developing these and other current iterations of 'Gather Wood, Gather Words" at New York University Abu Dhabi in the context of the Anthropocene "Research Kitchen."

 

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