New Signs

 

 

They stand by the wayside, along roads, and seemingly regulate traffic. Dolls, designed, seemingly equipped with individual features that refer to the artists. However, it is migrant workers who build these dolls. I have translated the most characteristic features into signs. The new form, a kind of sign - round, reference to the thing, establishes a mimetic connection.

The question is whether this can be sensually experienced and therefore reconstructed. Between the written image (the new round form) and the signified there is an underlying mimetic relationship, as between language and writing.

 

New Signs 1-6, Machine Embroidery, Fabric, diam. 35cm, Al Hamryia Studios, Sharjah, 2019