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Maha Malluh, Food for Thought “Nur wa Thulumat”, 2023

Maha Malluh Saudi Arabian, b. 1959

Food for Thought “Nur wa Thulumat”, 2023
891 cassette tapes in 9 wooden trays
192h x 360w x 10d cm
75 5/8 x 141 3/4 x 4 in
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Malluh plays with audio material to construct words within a visual-sensory framework. The Food for Thought series are installations of interspersed coloured cassette tapes dating from the 1980’s and containing...
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Malluh plays with audio material to construct words within a visual-sensory framework. The Food for Thought series are installations of interspersed coloured cassette tapes dating from the 1980’s and containing recordings of religious sermons preaching a rigid interpretation of Islam. Impressed into old wooden bread-baking trays from the same period, these cassette compositions ultimately form Arabic words referencing Islamic concepts. This decade saw an adverse fundamental reaction to the fast-paced modernisation and westernisation that was gripping the country.
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