Broken, Taken, Erased, Tallied
Broken, Taken, Erased, Tallied brings together recent film, sculpture and works on paper from Jumana Manna’s multidisciplinary practice to explore the paradoxical effects of preservation practices in agriculture, science, and the law.
Through the films and the diverse works on view, Manna´s works explore the land and its rhythms as foundational to ways of life that also resist, evade, and transform hegemonic power structures. While considering the politics of witnessing and chronicling of events, the artist does not simply document the intersections of collective history and personal biography. Instead her films and make room for the speculative, the idiosyncratic and the theatrical to challenge or circumvent dominant narratives and ossified ideological tropes.
Vasco Stocker de Vilhena
