イマン・アブドゥルマジドのインスタグラム(the_real_iman) - 4月6日 06時07分

On a recent visit to @elfennmarrakech
I witnessed a haunting photograph on their entry hall and inquired about the artist which led me to explore her work.

Alia Ali is a Yemeni-Bosnian-American multi-media artist. Her aesthetic interests stem from people, place, and the processes which unite and divide us, all at once.
Her work reflects on the politics and poetics of contested notions surrounding the topics of identity, physical borders, universality, mental/physical spaces of confinement, and the inherent dualism that exists in everything.

Her work blurs the lines between what we claim to be objective and subjective, illusion and reality, truth and interpretation.

This haunting series is called Borderland and the term “borderland” is most commonly referred to as the crossroads where nations collide. It is a porous zone that diffuses outward from an artificially imposed human made punctuation called a border. Borders enact violence on the geography and identity of those living in borderlands. They are both imprints of power and scars of destruction.
The characters in the portraits, called —cludes, are wrapped in layers of fabric from regions of the world that shield them from interrelating with anything beyond the material.

Who is on the other side of the fabric questions the very nature of belonging and interrogates the binary of home and exile.
Is the subject the one who imposes the standards, the decision maker, the ‘include’? Or the ‘exclude’? BORDERLAND was inspired by the aggressive push to block access, coupled with a strong nationalistic phenomenon taking precedence over providing security and refuge for those in greatest need.
This discourse has already begun to build walls around the globe while simultaneously eroding communities built on diversity.

The -cludes are “undocumented” characters- their names are ambiguous and their exact location, a mystery.
They are unidentifiable, except for the details displayed such as color, symbolism and texture eventually and simultaneously drawing on a sense of connection and alienation.
Their existence questions what the human is and what lies outside and within it. (Continued below)

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