“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”
Very much like Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis quoted above, Sara Naim is exploring the inside and the outside, the grand and the microscopic, the perception and the feeling, in her latest exhibition, ‘Heartstrings: a Kafkaesque inside out‘. The close up landscapes of what is human and what is natural intertwine and merge, reminding one that the inner self and the outside world are at times one, blurred via an ephemeral sense of touch. Once nerves and tendons that braced and sustained the heart, today Naim’s Heartstrings is an intimate exploration of a deep emotional response to one’s surroundings.
Each of the photographs in the series Metamorphic Masafi examine the ever-changing, textured surface of an actual metamorphic rock in the United Arab Emirates. Palm-sized photos are arranged in a pattern that evokes arrow slits, a modern peekaboo where the viewer is a curious observer of an ethereal medieval castle inside.
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