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as above so below<\/em>
Arcadia Missa, London\u00a0
2022<\/p>

For Melike Kara\u2019s second exhibition at Arcadia Missa, a series of new works continues the artist\u2019s exploration into combining Kurdish traditions, narratives, fates and ritual onto the canvas. In this series she further layers and abstracts tapestry motifs, echoing the sampling of weaving techniques and customs that various Kurdish tribes borrow from the range of countries their forced migration covers. The act of appropriating, adapting, and hybridising signifies the flux of the Kurdish people and their relationship to visual cultures that are interlaced with their own.<\/p>

The looseness of brushstroke in these pieces moves the series on from earlier pieces that referenced individual patterns. Historically, abstraction attempts to subvert direct representation, but instead Kara points to the references key to her Kurdish-Alevi heritage, creating a composite of expression and reproduction. Here we find an explicitly subjectivised process-based abstraction.<\/p>

The forms one finds in each work is personal, the viewer\u2019s eye and experience guiding that which it perceives. Kara\u2019s practice often interrogates how memory forms identity, and the process of abstraction in these pieces allows the viewer to bring with them their own moments of experience into understanding the composition.<\/p>

The intricate frames made for these pieces have been crocheted in the method akin to the process the patterns in the paintings themselves nod to. They signal domesticity, which like much craft is a feminised labour too often overlooked. Similarly, Kara\u2019s method of layering patterns of various colours to achieve the overall composition is akin to the process of embroidery itself: what happens beneath the surface underpins what we see. The starting point of knotting patterns, pushed into the medium of abstract painting, is key to Kara\u2019s practice of bridging gaps between fine art and craft. Not only is the distinction often coupled with a gendered demarcation, but it is also a binary that splits perceptions of Indigenous and Western cultures. In her work she challenges these distinctions, and extends those challenges to the gallery space itself, altering the walls to become both an extension of the paintings and a site of ritual.<\/p>\",\r\n \"align\": \"top\",\r\n \"row\": 1,\r\n \"col\": 1,\r\n \"colspan\": 6,\r\n \"offsetx\": 0,\r\n \"offsety\": 0,\r\n \"spaceabove\": 0,\r\n \"spacebelow\": 0,\r\n \"yvel\": 1,\r\n \"push\": 1,\r\n \"relid\": 4\r\n },\r\n {\r\n \"type\": \"text\",\r\n \"cont\": \"

Olive trees and Munzur<\/em><\/strong><\/p>


a mixture of both<\/em>
would be the perfect place<\/em>
where I could trace<\/em>
everything about you,<\/em>
the outline is black you say<\/em>
to me a light pink<\/em>
do colours even matter<\/em>
they tell me one step after the other
and that\u2019s supposed to heal everything
I was five<\/em>
when I saw this pain for the first time
while I sat on the stairs<\/em>
and the magician waved<\/em><\/p>

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