“One of the most important problems to solve is that of bringing about a complete unity,” wrote in 1973 Indian author Jiddu Krishnamurti in his book entitled Beyond Violence, chapter On ´Fragmentation and Unity´. “Something beyond the fragmentary self-centred concern with the ‘me’, at whatever level it be, social, economic or religious. The ‘me’ and the ‘not me’, the ‘we’ and ‘they’ are the factors of division.”
If apparently we had reach a high level of global communication, the current reality makes us think, looking at today´s wars, that we are moving backwards, or falling after touching the top. Today we strive to accept and embrace, to try to make the kind of connections that in music have been so effective and inspiring. But trapped in the socio-economic world circumscribed by the so-called “free market,” making these connections becomes more complex and challenging. We are increasingly further from our Being, from our interior.
Yet we desperately seek to find ourselves, with spiritual healing techniques and substances being shipped, shopped, and sampled. Whether it is a jungle root from a desert cactus or an ancient breathing exercise from across the world, the elusive goal is to perceive a little of our intangible nature.
Fragmentation, even as we try to get rid of it, bullies us mercilessly. It persecutes us because we are trained to believe in the power of deconstruction. Here it´s no valid Ubuntu or Dharma but on the contrary a we have a deficit dragon who phagocytes all on its way, converting everything in debt.
Is it possible to understand the origin? Can we unfold what a geocentric Mediterranean culture can be, how it arrived from the east, transferred later to the “New” continent where it was injected by unknown blood. Really?
Everything is a succession of generations that if we want to think on psychological features of personality creates all what we are today; but if we think about DNA and new discoveries we can fly to other theories and infinite possibilities starting from Anunnakis and/or planet Nibu. The novel of life.
Is memory necessary or is it just offered as more fragmentation? Or is memory the first draft of a new fiction?
Hemp, roots, blossoms and The Nile Valley. Civilization grows from fabric. In an intangible way, fire is not enough. Stone, cut, skins, hair. From the fractal world to the textile world where all memorial patterns converge. A collective sense emerges when borders vanish, opening to unity. Going away from politics.
The sensation gathered from these magical images created by Alia Ali is strange, as in The Tempest by Greenaway. On one side they absorb us as a mirror, while on the other they transmute us to political thinking, to this incomprehensiveness in which we are submerged, even if just by the weight of pluralities.
It is not easy to comprehend an image which departing from a flat element and jetted in the form of pigment onto another flat element – specifically cotton paper – can gather such an inward strength to propagate at both the thinking level towards the interior of it and to the entire world surrounding it. It can lead us to become trapped on a roller coaster of ideas circulating through the most opened channels of universal energy, far beyond the earthly world, in orbit.
Harmonics float through the space of their time. Reverberations of colour. This is where her exploration of the boundaries within dual relationships takes us, this manifestation of processes of investigation bound to a story, to a past, and to kill the limitation of the past. All of these make of this artist a profound representation of her time, our present, making our being vibrate , as Russian poet Vassily Kandinsky liked to put it.
Diego Alonso
Diego Alonso is the director of the Mondo Galeria, in Madrid, Spain.
Alia Ali, Borderland
23 March to 22 April 2017
Mondo Galeria
Calle San Lucas 9
28004 Madrid
Spain
