Fatima

Series of five objects with lamps and cables

Berlin, DE
2010

The artist created five similarly sized hands and framed them in five identical boxes. In the Arab world, the hand symbolizes femininity and is widely used as an amulet for protection from evil. Each of the hands shown here is made of a different material: hair, nails, needles, pinholes, and blood.
They are lit by lamps resembling surveillance cameras. The cables that connect the lamps are visibly installed in an angular, geometric structure that contrasts with the curved, organic form of the hands. The installation is dedicated to the artist’s grandmother, Fatima. Like many women of her generation, she was expected to fit within the rigid social constraints of the time.

3-Dimensional

Media
Steel, blood, horn, on paper, hair on textile, pinewood, acrylic,
lamps, and cables

Dimension
50 × 50 × 10 cm (each of five)

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Details of the hand of Fatima

Installation at Seeing without Light exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof – National Gallery for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2023