Syrian Parisbased artist Sara Naim's colourful oeuvre dissects the perception between boundaries and proportion. Skye Arundhati Thomas speaks with the artist about her visceral assemblages.
In artist Sara Naim's installation When the Heartstrings Collapse, first shown at The Third Line, Dubai, in 2016, several curved stainless steel sheets sweep their way across the gallery floor. Held up by thick pieces of disused high-voltage power cables, the sheets mirror and fragment are all that reach their surface. On the neighbouring walls, large digital prints of bizarre, impassioned groupings cluster together. Each is named in dramatic pauses: Tremble, Twitch, Blush, Chill, Choke, Pallor, Shudder, Sweat, Tense (all 2016). There is something unnerving here, and this scene is prone to malfunction.
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