WESAAM AL-BADRY – THE OTHER LANGUAGE
2022-10-17Inspired by a Kahlil Gibran poem with the same title, The Other Language ties together two of Al-Badry’s documentary projects which explore a coal mining town in Appalachia, and migrant workers in the Central Valley. Gibran’s poem presents the idea that every person is born speaking a language that we have to forget in order to be understood by others. In these works, Al-Badry combines methods of investigative journalism and art to ask us to rethink how people deal with tragic circumstances created by corporate avarice. By citing Gibran’s poetry, Al-Badry’s work enters a multidimensional frame, it is at once surface-level and abstract, autobiographical and biographical.
Opposite – Marianna #L, 2019
Exhibition runs through to October 29th, 2022
Jenkins Johnson Gallery
1275 Minnesota Street, #200
San Francisco
CA 94107
