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HAND-PAINTED CERAMIC VESSELS; MIXED MEDIA

BESPOKE COMMISSIONED BY ASMA

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SUFRA DRAWS ON THE CENTURIES-OLD CLAY-POT HERITAGE OF THE UAE AND TURNS THAT INHERITED FORM INTO

A PORTRAIT OF THE EMIRATI WOMAN.

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EACH VESSEL, PAINTED BY HAND IN THE WARM HUES OF OPULENCE, IS INSCRIBED WITH AN ABSTRACT LANGUAGE OF FEMININITY: SYMBOLS OF HER EXISTENCE AND ROLE IN SOCIETY, HER BEAUTY AND AURA, HER STRENGTH AND 

PROSPERITY, HER BEAUTY AND AURA, HER STRENGTH AND PROSPERITY, SOME VISIBLE, SOME BURIED BENEATH THE SURFACE.

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IN PAINTING THE WOMAN ONTO THE OLDEST OF EMIRATI FORMS, THE WORK REFRAMES THE VESSEL AS PORTRAIT AND THE TABLE AS A SITE OF ARTISTRY AND MEMORY, HONOURING THE WOMEN WHOSE MAKING WAS ALWAYS ART.

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