الصبا Saba
Composed and performed by Sami El-Enany
Ghaychak performed by Roxanna Albayati
Two channel composition
Duration: 19 minutes
Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha
3 November 2024 - February 2025
Curated by Sara Raza as part of "I Swear I Saw That"
الصبا Saba is a sonic essay on Orientalism that explores the politics of listening and was commissioned as an aural response to “Seeing Is Believing.” The artwork’s title draws from the Arabic word used to describe the East wind or the sensation of yearning. Invoking inherent tensions within Western Spacetime, Saba merges abstract and non-linear qualities associated with memory and mapping, revealing complex chronologies that oscillate between the past and the present.
The soundwork is situated in the main hall of Mathaf and shares the space with Hera Büyüktaşcıyan's
“In Situ” pictured above.
الصبا Saba
Composed and performed by Sami El-Enany
Ghaychak performed by Roxanna Albayati
Two channel composition
Duration: 19 minutes
Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha
3 November 2024 - February 2025
Curated by Sara Raza as part of "I Swear I Saw That"
الصبا Saba is a sonic essay on Orientalism that explores the politics of listening and was commissioned as an aural response to “Seeing Is Believing.” The artwork’s title draws from the Arabic word used to describe the East wind or the sensation of yearning. Invoking inherent tensions within Western Spacetime, Saba merges abstract and non-linear qualities associated with memory and mapping, revealing complex chronologies that oscillate between the past and the present.
The soundwork is situated in the main hall of Mathaf and shares the space with Hera Büyüktaşcıyan's
“In Situ” pictured above.
