Epistemologies - Maria Ahmed

Author: 
Maria Ahmed
Bio:
Maria Ahmed is a Londoner of Finnish-Indian origin whose art practice spans collage, photography, books and moving image. She held her first solo exhibition Slips and Burns in London in 2023, showing work prepared during two months at the AARK residency. Her self-published artist's publications have been shortlisted for international awards including Images Vevey, Belfast Photofestival, Skinnerboox/Fotografia Europea and Fiebre. Maria loves to immerse herself in Finnish nature and connect with other artists through AARK.
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You can read this article as a PDF/flipbook in issue 88 of Korpo Bladet here

An open book shows abstract art with monochromatic and vibrant red tones, featuring layered images of hands, nature, and fluid patterns.

Korpo, August 2024

Here is anxious meat. A complicated, heavy body turning in the water.

Soft and slippery yellow-fronded fingers fumble and shift lumpy flesh until it becomes supple and pliant, transforming bone and dense vessels into reflected light. The body becomes ripple, becomes song.

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Here are histories of heat, of water and light. Epistemologies - imaginary, magical and mythical. False. Slimy. Discarded.

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Here is the shedding of skins.

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At this point I abandoned this line of thinking - Basho.

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My body explores honeycomb sources in the water: textures, cells; plenitude.

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The water has a secret, disguised way of writing. It spells in zeros, figures and placeholders. It has a method of transforming messages to conceal meanings.

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The sea snakes are gone (don't speak too soon).

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Variant readings of water: silver - grey - silver - green - skins - pixels - shedding - shrinking - wrinkling - soft - serrated -tongues

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Push gently off the shore

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