Safaa Erruas Moroccan , b. 1976
Les Murmurs des Atlas oubliés, 2025
Weavings sewn in metallic threads, cotton paper and tissue paper
270 x 200 cm
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‘Les murmurs des Atlas oubliés’ features what looks like cut-out maps of countries or continents, and complex network diagrams that are sewn to layers of transparent wavy white gauze. The...
‘Les murmurs des Atlas oubliés’ features what looks like cut-out maps of countries or continents, and complex network diagrams that are sewn to layers of transparent wavy white gauze. The textile presents unwoven parts, contrasting with an extra layer of grid-like motifs stitched to others. With just a few materials and gestures, Erruas renders a vertiginous, unstable global map in which water - the ocean, or pure water - seems to inform the movement between objects,