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Catalina Swinburn, HIZB, 2025

Catalina Swinburn b. 1979

HIZB, 2025
Woven paper piece made from astronomy studies and poetry verses from vintage books found in the Medina of Tunis and Kairouan. Hizb is the starting point of a larger ritual arc and it is performed without written texts. The work is inspired by the intensifications and trajectories of the sonic form, texture and density of the ritual.
150h x 260w x 10d cm
59.06h x 102.36w x 3.94d in
CS-000350
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Catalina Swinburn’s work engages with ancestral rituals, sacred geographies, and memory through the act of weaving paper from vintage documents, as to regenerate narratives and articulate both a sense of...
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Catalina Swinburn’s work engages with ancestral rituals,
sacred geographies, and memory through the act of weaving
paper from vintage documents, as to regenerate narratives
and articulate both a sense of urgency and a mode of
resistance. Her recent body of work is rooted in field research
across Tunisia, focusing on the sacred topographies and sonic
trajectories of zawiyas, sanctuaries of Sufi devotion that
persist across the Maghreb. These spaces operate
simultaneously as tombs, shrines, and communal gathering
points, where spiritual and performative histories are
preserved and re-enacted. The artist explores these spiritual
cartographies, often weaving together sacred architectures,
sonic textures, and performative rituals. Swinburn meditates
on the interactive triad of space, people, and ritual, which are
the core elements that activate the zawiya as a performative
spiritual site. Hizb takes as its point of departure a segment
from the Īsāwiyya hadra ritual, specifically the opening
sequence that lends the work both its name and sonic
structure. Composed through paper weaving, the work enacts
the tempo diagrams and rhythmic strata of the ceremonial
form, transposing the performance’s polyrhythmic
intensifications into a visual and material plane. The ḥizb
establishes a sonic arc marked by intensification, tonal ascent,
and cyclic repetition, all of which are qualities that Swinburn
registers through shifts in density, interval, and directional
flow. The visual composition reflects the ritual’s experiential
sense of journey and transformation, where repetition
becomes a vehicle for elevation, internalisation, and ultimately,
spiritual transference.





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TUNIS

32 Rue Ibn Nafis
Z.I. Kheireddine, La Goulette, 2015
Tunisia

LONDON

1-5 Cromwell Place

London, SW72JE

United Kingdom

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