Bū-Daryā
بو درياه
A Ripple From 1991
13’ x 9’ x 1’
Silicone, Plastic, Oil, Foam, Blood
Fish Water, Hair, Jewels, Seashells,
Pearls
2023
This artwork uses pre-colonial Khaleeji mythology to draw relations between the historical pearl-diving economy in Kuwait to the current oil-production economy. This artwork aims to address oral “fictional” narrative histories and their co-existence with the histories of the 1991 Iraqi invasion oil spill into the Kuwaiti-Arabian Gulf sea.
Oil-Spill Mythology Death Post-War
