LA MER À BOIRE
2024 - 2025
dye sublimation and hand embroidery on textile
2024 - 2025
dye sublimation and hand embroidery on textile
LA MER À BOIRE is a series of dye sublimation prints of the English Channel on textile with hand-embroidered words in Sorani Kurdish, derived from the testimony of Mohammed Shekha Ahmed. Mohammed was one of only two survivors of the English Channel Disaster of November 2021, in which 31 migrants drowned after their vessel sank in a failed attempt to cross from France to England while both British and French authorities actively refused to respond to their calls of distress.
These semi-translucent textile pieces—installed free-floating in space, in order to respond to the movements of the air and people around them—are a reflection on the sociopolitical hierarchy of displacement, the complicated nature of situated death, and what constitutes a life worth saving in the eyes of those in power.
These semi-translucent textile pieces—installed free-floating in space, in order to respond to the movements of the air and people around them—are a reflection on the sociopolitical hierarchy of displacement, the complicated nature of situated death, and what constitutes a life worth saving in the eyes of those in power.
