“I went back to the Tunisian southwest, to the silent poverty, mineral loneliness, arid and forgotten soils whose foundations were rich with minerals, which have been confiscated and stripped from these oppressed – but not submissive – souls.
I took the road that crosses these dusty lands, an area that is both lifeless and inhabited, where captive figure moves. The body is moving within this universe as its matrix; it extracts itself with a gesture that breaks its confinement. In its struggle, in its encounters, in its wanderings, this body is a figure of resistance, a figure pushing for freedom and the re-enchantment of a forgotten land.”
Mouna Karray, 2015
Tyburn Gallery presents its new exhibition of photographic work from the Tunisian artist Mouna Karray’s post-revolution series Nobody Will Talk About Us. The exhibition marks the artist’s first solo show in the United Kingdom. Taken across various landscapes of the Tunisian south, the works present a figure shrouded in a white sheet photographed against many rural and desolate backdrops. This series, produced from 2012-2015, is shown in its entirety for the first time. Considered one of the most disadvantaged regions in the country, the south of Tunisia has traditionally suffered from a lack of investment and marginalisation. Karray’s works represent a series of loaded narratives exploring the artist’s encounters with both the people and landscape of this region – which provides a home for the country’s neglected, almost forgotten, population. Restrained by the limitations of their socio-economic status, the isolation and alienation experienced by the people in this region are personified within Karray’s restricted, anonymous subject. This figure exists in stark juxtaposition to the unique beauty and vast character of the surrounding landscape.
EXHIBITION
Nobody Will Talk About Us
Mouna Karray
From 8 April 2016 to 21 May 2016
Tyburn Gallery
26 Barrett Street
London, W1U 1BG
United Kingdom
+44 (0)20 3388 0540
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http://www.tyburngallery.com
http://www.mounakarray.com
