Aporia | ابوريا
Part of a collective project by Dongolobooks “The mail box project” 2020, with a huge list of regional artists ; Dia Azawi, Hani Zurob, Lulwa Homoud to name a few..
the book is currently on tour,
“Villa Romana”, Florence 22
“Mathaf“, Qatar 23
In times when one has lost the horizon amidst a matrix of uncertainties, difficulties, impasse, or doubt… the state of Aporia is what describes it best… paradoxes juxtaposed and points of un-decidability undermines its own structure, dismantles, and deconstructs it.
An ancient Greek concept; that means a state of puzzlement, or a declaration of doubt, its two morphemes separated (a /poros) translates to ('without' / 'passage')
In times when one has lost the horizon amidst a matrix of uncertainties, difficulties, impasse, or doubt… the state of Aporia is what describes it best… paradoxes juxtaposed and points of un-decidability undermines its own structure, dismantles, and deconstructs it.
How can one find possibilities from many fragments, create a system from chaos, and delineate perspectives to visibility and reason? In this book, both the process and the outcome, the art and the artist state, reflect the concept of Aporia. An edgeless work, where pages represents a void transformed into a spatial interpretation of the state where possibilities conducts its own structures.
From her home studio, during the various stages of lockdowns, the artist built the pages from many fragments; collecting from her old prints and printing from new plates … generating a sum of shapes, textures and patterns, a process with no framework. Haddadin allows these entities to float on the blank pages; for weeks at times, moving them freely yet with uncertainty and doubt, building numerous possibilities, generating multiple images and compositions… and then like a puzzle, carefully layered, juxtaposed and interlocked to symphonize the final pieces.
Multiple horizon lines, parallel perspectives, different vantage points render these collages, trying to make sense of the chaos and measure uncertainties through each page. Creating ‘an orchestrated spatial declaration of doubt’, in these transient times of ‘uncertainties’
