unnarated

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Installation / Recorded Performance
P21 Gallery
London, 2021

Unnarrated is an installation examining feminine spirituality and mysticism within North African cultural contexts.

Through fragmented moving image, reflection, and performance, the work interrogates how spiritual knowledge circulates beyond written documentation. Drawing on research into oral histories and ritual practices shaped by the influence of Islam in North Africa, the project considers forms of knowledge that remain resistant to codification within Western epistemological frameworks.

The collective’s inquiry centres on what might be described as the “external inaccessibility” of certain spiritual traditions - practices transmitted orally across generations, often destabilised by colonial disruption and diasporic displacement. Rather than attempting to fix or translate these traditions into linear narrative, the installation foregrounds fragmentation as a methodological choice.

Unnarrated positions artistic practice as a space for engaging with knowledge that exceeds language, examining how collective memory, belief, and social performance operate within and beyond dominant paradigms of documentation and historical legitimacy.