REFRAIN by Alma Sinai
Presented by ANTiPODE on Nov 2023

“The three sections of my project are in dialogue through repetition, loops, patterns and ultimately the notion of trap. I am interested in how–through the process of recurrence in the motif of the nets and the looped narratives with no exit points–meanings get lost, added and distorted. The nets and their encompassing void together and solely implicate a space in which the figures are confined and trapped in. Within different parts of this project there lies an ongoing tension and an occasional leakage between inside & outside while implicating a sense of suspension and pause. These in-between zones are connected by a thread, the mountain.

Refrain: 

• A regularly recurring line or verse at the end of each stanza or division of a poem

• To stop oneself from doing something.

This body of work was created before the women uprising in Iran. In retrospect, it conveys a sense of calm before the storm, with the women at the center of the narrative: as if they are in a paused moment right before breaking through the confinements.”

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