نسج البصر / Weaving of Sight
Hussein Shikha, 2022
Concept & realisation: Hussein Shikha
Production: Werktank, with the support of the Flemish government, iMAL & KASK Curatorial Studies
© Photos: Ernest Thiesmeier
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2022 - KIKK in Town, Namur (Belgium)
Similar to layers of threads, the brain can learn to recognize patterns which makes it capable of weaving together visual forms to create a visual tapestry or simply our sight.
Following Donna J. Haraway’s theory on neuron connections, through the subjective multi-layered consciousness, the artist’s brain becomes a metaphor for the neural network in which the spectator experiences presented works. That inner tapestry is embodied in the visual representation of one’s brain.
On the technical and aesthetic capacities of this work, pixelation becomes a thread or a connection between technologies of weaving and the development of digital computing. This work becomes an opposition against arguments which relegates carpet weaving to an older temporal order, one incapable of connecting to modern technologies. Contrary to conventional ways of seeing digital technologies, there are real and vital connections – structural, aesthetic, and even spiritual connections – between older ways of weaving reality and newer ways.