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Glide Through Evanescent Lands
Houda Terjuman -
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Solo exhibitions include (Upcoming) Glide Through Evanescent Lands, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2023); When Hope Smells Like Petichor, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, UK (2022); Galerie GVCC, Casablanca, Morocco (2021); Untold Stories at Galerie Siniya in Marrakech, Morocco (2019); Because these wings can no longer fly, an artistic project with Arts Cabinet in London, UK (2019); Un Oeil Ouvert sur le Monde Arabe, a collaboration with FFCreative Paris, for “La Nuit Blanche” at L’Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France (2018); Casa Arabe, Madrid, Spain (2018); Collaboration with Alex Hammersly and Hollandridge Group, London, UK ( 2018); Taghazout Bay, Agadir, Morocco (2016).
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Group exhibitions include Contemporary dilemmas: Eternal displacements, RoFa Projects, Maryland, USA (2023); Art Dubai, with Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Dubai, UAE, (2023); Don't Ask Me Where I'm From, Orlando Museum of ArtRe-composing in partnership with Fondazione Imago Mundi and the Aga Khan Museum , Orlando, USA (2022); The 369 Art Gallery, Palazzo Bembo, Venice, Italy (2022); Art Dubai, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates (2022); Facing the Sun, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Schloss Görne, Germany (2021); Galerie Géraldine zberro, Paris, France (2021); Thinking Out Loud, Pulpo Gallery Murnau am Staffelsee, Germany (2021); Musee de la Kasbah, Tangier, Morocco (2021); Rofa Projects, Potomac, Maryland, USA (2020); Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From, Aga Kahn Museum, Toronto, Canada (2020); Galleria delle Prigioni, Luciano Benetton Foundation, Treviso, Italy (2019); Hybrid Migrant, a touring exhibition with the Agha Kahn Museum and Imago Mundi, Luciano Benetton’s Global Art project, Treviso, Toronto, Vancouver, Houston, Dallas, Paris, London, Lisbon and Dubai (2019-2020); Wondrous Worlds, Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin, Germany(2019), Oeuvres et Recherches, GVCC, Casablanca, Morocco (2018), Galerie 21, Geneva, Switzerland (2018);Black Sphinx II, Primae Noctis Gallery, Lugano, Switzerland (2018), La Sfinge Nera II, Primo Marella Gallery, Milan, Italy(2018), Mercedes Roldan, Madrid, Spain (2017), Merchant of Dreams, Viborg Kunsthal, Denmark (2016); Musée Mohammed VI d’Art Contemporain, Rabat, Morocco (2015); Femmes et Religion, Bibliothèque Nationale du Royaume du Maroc (2015).
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Another recurring motif are pieces of gold that form a trail in the sky, drawing the eye into the distance. In all of Terjuman’s paintings gold makes reference to El Dorado, the legend of a golden city that has bewitched people for centuries with its promise of imaginable riches. However, she explores El Dorado not as a place or hopeless quest for material wealth, but as a state of mind that enables positive thinking. In Drifting Destinies VI, for example, one of the darker, more melancholic scenes, which depicts a cream sofa on the edge of boggy wasteland, the gold provides both a light source and a pathway to something beyond the present moment.
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In a sense, this is the aim of Terjuman’s art: to produce an image, using carefully chosen colours and imagery, that inspires and soothes both the artist and viewer. The varying shades of red used in the background of many of these latest paintings – most intensely in Pine tree cloak and Pine tree cloak II – for example, is associated with fire (energy) and blood (our essential life source) as well as the Muladhara or root chakra that according to Hindu tantrism is connected to the earth and a feeling of rootedness. Meanwhile, the lush grassy meadows that appear throughout Terjuman’s work, stretching seemingly endlessly into the horizon, invite a sense of calm expansiveness.Through these elements, Terjuman finds a sense of visual harmony that enables her to transform the eerie presence of a boat or bicycle abandoned in a grass field into a powerful message of beauty and hope.
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Houda Terjuman: Glide Through Evanescent Lands
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