Annabel Daou: What Is Left Of Us
Annabel Daou鈥檚 third solo exhibition at Signs and Symbols is built around found and gifted fragments of language. Knitted together into nets of shifting and dissipating meaning, the works attempt to capture the voice as an archeological remain, constantly evading our grasp.
In Stolen Lines, parts of sentences pulled from various sources are cut into thin, fragile lines, each representing an object, an idea, or an incident, a part of some other whole. The 120 fragments are untethered from their intended place of meaning. Woven together, and torn open in places, they invite and obstruct understanding.
The sound piece What鈥檚 left of us?, made in collaboration with Fritjof Mangerich, plays from two paper speakers, ensnared in hanging paper nets. Daou鈥檚 voice intones words, fragments, and sentences, collected responses to the question/statement: 鈥渨hat鈥檚 left of us.鈥� Trembling through the paper, the answers hover between the now of the question and an imagined future where what we have said becomes a residue of what we were.
Kick against the pricks (1-25) is a series of watercolor drawings of thistles. Some of the thistles are sketched on lines that never made their way into the larger network of language in the main gallery. The image of thistles, which are native to Lebanon, Daou鈥檚 country of origin, have appeared in her work over the years during times of difficulty and struggle. Here the spiky needles pierce out of the paper merging with the partially cut language.
In this new body of work, Daou reflects on where we stand and what we feel defines our existence when our sense of belonging and responsibility are in question.
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Annabel Daou鈥檚 third solo exhibition at Signs and Symbols is built around found and gifted fragments of language. Knitted together into nets of shifting and dissipating meaning, the works attempt to capture the voice as an archeological remain, constantly evading our grasp.
In Stolen Lines, parts of sentences pulled from various sources are cut into thin, fragile lines, each representing an object, an idea, or an incident, a part of some other whole. The 120 fragments are untethered from their intended place of meaning. Woven together, and torn open in places, they invite and obstruct understanding.
The sound piece What鈥檚 left of us?, made in collaboration with Fritjof Mangerich, plays from two paper speakers, ensnared in hanging paper nets. Daou鈥檚 voice intones words, fragments, and sentences, collected responses to the question/statement: 鈥渨hat鈥檚 left of us.鈥� Trembling through the paper, the answers hover between the now of the question and an imagined future where what we have said becomes a residue of what we were.
Kick against the pricks (1-25) is a series of watercolor drawings of thistles. Some of the thistles are sketched on lines that never made their way into the larger network of language in the main gallery. The image of thistles, which are native to Lebanon, Daou鈥檚 country of origin, have appeared in her work over the years during times of difficulty and struggle. Here the spiky needles pierce out of the paper merging with the partially cut language.
In this new body of work, Daou reflects on where we stand and what we feel defines our existence when our sense of belonging and responsibility are in question.
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