Sour Things: The Door

multimedia installation, proculain, ceramics, 4 videos, sound piece, ink drawings. 

A multimedia installation that explores the architecture of immigration. Sour Things: The Door, foregrounds the everyday rituals through which displaced identities are preserved and re-articulated: the packing of food as inheritance, the intimate labor of taste, the embodied memory embedded in ingredients. Through its interplay of porcelain, moving image and voice, the installation offers a framework for thinking about home as a practice of care, survival, and everyday forms of resistance.

A threshold-like door curtain made of porcelain stones, creates a space that is not fully enclosed nor open; a barrier that evokes a status of suspension between entering and not entering, not being fully welcomes or unwelcome. A liminal space that immigrants know deeply. Around Inside this porous form, 3 videos speak about food ingredients immigrants from SWANA region pack in their luggages when they visit the homeland, Zaatar, Sumac, Olive oil, dates, dried okra, Aleppo pepper, dried Mloukieh, Jammed, spices, Harissa etc etc the journey with this passage, and its significance for them. All of them intimately and passionately recount the fragments of home they transport across borders.

Produced by Nika Project Space

>> read the curatorial text by Anne Davidian.