Current Review(s)
'Unearthed': Lindi Arbi at the Monument
Lindi Arbi at Gallery in the RoundMourning is either a solipsistic act or a collective one: 'you will never understand my pain…' or '… we will find a way to work through pain together'. While born astride a grave, it does not mean that we are prepared for the inevitable, particularly when it is not one’s own death but the death of a loved one which becomes the source of grief; when that death couldn’t be prepared for or anticipated. It is this sudden break, the hand wrenched from your grasp, which produces a grief all the more maddening. A sudden death makes for a peculiar kind of mourning, one that hollows out and leaves one with the corrosive and deafening static of sentences unfinished, actions thwarted, embraces unreturned. An annulus grows where love once took root. The dead and living, husband and wife, form a strange new pact: the dead one, while estranged, remains alive; the living one, yearning, experiences the nullification of another kind of death. Both the living and the dead now occupy an interzone between being and non-being: both are alive, both dead.
26 September 2009 - 26 September 2009
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'Unearthed': Lindi Arbi at the Monument
Lindi Arbi at Gallery in the RoundLindi Arbi presents her MFA practical submission in the exhibition 'Unearthed'. This sculptural body of work explores the artist's experience of widowhood and loss, the links between life and death and the process of memory and memorialisation.
26 September 2009 - 26 September 2009
