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Gazelle horns
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In the Arabic world, the gazelle is a symbol of beauty, elegance and femininity. The female gazelle is a persistent warrior and the only female antelope with horns. ‘Gazelle horn’ is also the name of an Algerian almond cake, which pays tribute to the gazelle and is baked with a promise that if a gazelle loses a horn, a new one will be made.
Ayesha Elizabeth Ghaoul works with what memories and stories mean for our self-image and how they can be influenced and changed. Founded on personal experience, Gazelle Horns unfolds as a kind of mapping of the artist’s attempts to build a time machine and travel back to the early 00s.
The installation consists of various objects that together form a memory collage, based on fragments of stories, sound and photos that relate an event and its context. Chalk drawings, woven rugs, ceramic cats, a glockenspiel and a film about the North African cake ‘Gazelle horn’ construct traces of recollections, which constitute the outline of a memory.
The objects are also symbols for friendship, strength and hope, lighting up the dark path of memory. Gazelle Horns investigates what memory means for our self-image and evokes a child’s magic universe, as a healing space where events and experiences can be revisited and altered.
Text written by Katarina Stenbeck