BODY TALK حديث الجسد

Body Talk brings the work of writer Zeina Raafat with digital artist Dina Jereidini, creating a quasi-cinematic experience. Reflecting on the limitations of language in relation to containing and describing the body, the work explores personal memories, affect, oral histories and gender. What are the categories, conventions, and consequences of the body’s gendered presence? Informed in part by iconic film characters from the golden age of Egypt’s cinema history, Body Talk offers an experimental take on urgent questions. In Body Talk, famous characters from 1950s and 1960s film have been digitally reconstructed in their respective gender-bending roles referencing a common thematic trope among films of the era. Accompanying the sculptures is a soulful text referencing the musical works of singing diva Um Kulthum. This text suggests an inner/outer monologue, projecting the thoughts of the body outwards, as it receives gendered projections of its own. A poetic moving digital sculpture, a video performance, and a short film all at once

BODY TALK
Digital sculpture film

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