Water Like Tears, Flour Like Soil

Exploring themes of land and cultural resistance, Water like tears, flour like soil is a group exhibition formed in partnership between ICD Brookfield Place Arts and Dar Jacir for Art and Research. This project is part of the ICD Brookfield Place Arts Program, which explores ways of supporting regional creatives and the UAE’s cultural landscape through year-round programming and exhibitions. Water like tears, flour like soil hosts collaborators from Dar Jacir to explore ways in which collective narratives and storytelling connect across time, lineage, and landscapes.


This art show branding was created in collaboration with Leen AlBaz, a visual communication designer. The goal was to create a visual language inspired by the gauze that is used in bandaging wounds. This system combines arabic typography and materiality which in turn creates interesting, unpredictable intersections between the two. A part of the process was manipulating the gauze fabric and handling the material in which it can create letterforms, and from there tracing it string by string to achieve the sought appliance.


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