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- By a Woman, brings together the practices of Leonie Brandner, Müge Yılmaz, and Pei-Ying Lin in a shared exploration of feminist worlding. Part of the evolving series A Tree, with a Bird, by a Woman, on Land, Under a Star, the exhibition explores feminist worlding through artistic practices and writing that rethink how knowledge is created, shared, and embodied. Perhaps the woman in the title is the maker of the work, the narrator of the story, or a shapeshifter moving between identities of each iteration. By a Woman, invites visitors to reconsider who gets to imagine worlds, whose knowledge is recognized, and how stories shape the realities we inhabit. Worlding approaches the world as an ongoing process of becoming. Through installation, sculpture, text, and textiles, the exhibition explores how artistic practices participate in shaping relationships between humans, materials, histories, and more-than-human life. Working with inherited linens, embroidery, stone, and language, Leonie Brandner traces genealogies through materials and memory. Müge Yılmaz connects historical and speculative figures through vividly coloured wooden sculptures, proposing feminist lineages of writing and science. Pei-Ying Lin translates microbiological research into textile form, inviting new relationships with the microbial worlds that surround and inhabit us. By a Woman, unfolds simultaneously as an exhibition and a publication, each developing through the other. The artistic worlds presented in the exhibition become the chapters of the reader, while the texts inhabit the exhibition as part of an ongoing dialogue between making and writing. Both remain unfinished until they are encountered by visitors and readers, whose interpretations and imaginations continue the process of worlding. * The project approaches 'woman' as an open, relational, and politically situated category, in solidarity with trans, non-binary, and gender-fluid people, and attentive to the ways identities are lived, negotiated, and continually becoming.Description
By a Woman
Jusqu’au 20 déc. 2026
Expositions récentes terminées
- Onomatopee is delighted to present the first two-person exhibition of Ala Younis and Ali Eyal, titled “Can I Hug All These Flowers?” The exhibition focuses on the artists’ shared explorations of what history leaves behind: fragments, ghosts, and tangled narratives. Through works that interweave personal and collective experiences, Younis and Eyal expose the erosion of families, museums, and ideologies. They examine the traces left by the politically charged events in the Arab World, creating spaces for affective solidarities. The title evokes a memory from Eyal’s childhood in Baghdad: “I was addicted to rose petals during the sanctions. I used to eat a lot of flowers in the 1990s.” It also resonates with Younis’s exploration of the cut flowers that disappeared from Jordanian markets during the same period, revealing how they were tied to a market reconditioning led by the Dutch flower industry. Both artists weave their stories in and around the architecture that emerged from the dismemberment of Iraq under the UN sanctions and the subsequent US-led invasion. While Eyal delves into personal memories and lived experiences through sometimes absurd details in painting, drawing, and film that reconstruct situations in which roles shift fluidly among people, objects, spaces, and historical truths, Younis engages with female perspectives on histories of planning and performative presentations of state power. From infrastructures to modernist ideals, political regimes, and the afterlives of war, she studies expressions captured in ephemera that circulated across the Arab region in the 1970s and 1990s, including children’s publications. Can I Hug All These Flowers? is the third exhibition in the five-year program Systems and Territories. The program focuses on monographic and thematic exhibitions, which stem from long-term investigations and collaborations between artists, researchers, and communities critically examining categories, structures and ideologies upholding global modernity.Description
Can I Hug All These Flowers?
Terminée le 10 mai 2026