Looking At You Looking At Me: Postcard Women in the Contact Zone: An artist talk with Salma Ahmad Caller

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• Sunday, Feb 20, 2022  2pm - 3pm

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Looking At You Looking At Me: Postcard Women in the Contact Zone
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Salma Ahmad Caller will be talking about her work with colonial 19th century postcards of women and how they became part of her art practice and a way to explore her mixed Egyptian British identity and legacies of colonialism. The images on postcards of ‘exotic’ women exist in a contested space or contact zone of asymmetrical power relations but these women still have a lot to say to us.
The set of 7 postcards created for this exhibition are called Seven Cautionary Tales, made instinctively, but each ‘tale’ poses visual questions about what societies warn women about, and creates juxtapositions between ‘East’ and ‘West’, pointing at ‘types’ and tropes.
The texts on the back of each card are an imaginary cryptic conversation with Naunet, the Ancient Egyptian female principle of the watery abyss/ inactivity and her ‘relatives’ Kauket (darkness), Amunet (the hidden one), Hauhet (infinity) and of course there is the Gypsy fortune teller and Hathor (fertility, women, love).
7 Postcard Tales are : On Fate, on Darkness, On Dancing, On Longing, On Desire, On Sex, On ‘Marriages’