{"id":7033,"date":"2023-02-27T10:39:01","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T09:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lantb.net\/figure\/?p=7033"},"modified":"2023-03-12T10:22:31","modified_gmt":"2023-03-12T09:22:31","slug":"kameelah-janan-rasheed-artiste-textuelle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lantb.net\/figure\/?p=7033","title":{"rendered":"Kameelah Janan Rasheed. Artiste textuelle"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00ab The Edge of LegibilityKameelah Janan Rasheed<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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October 20, 2021<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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One of five new films<\/a> from Art21\u2019s fall 2021 programming<\/em><\/p>\n

logo\u00b7\u200bphile | \\ \u02c8l\u022f-g\u0259-\u02ccf\u012b(-\u0259)l : a lover of words.<\/em> A self-described \u201clearner,\u201d immersed in books since childhood, text-based artist Kameelah Janan Rasheed is uniquely fascinated with the written word and its power to both define and destabilize how we understand the world. Rasheed photocopies pages from books and printed materials<\/span>, cuts out words and sentences, and re-arranges them in poetic, provocative, or even confusing combinations. The resulting sprawling wall collages, billboards, films and public installations encourage viewers to do the work of understanding. \u201cIt\u2019s really an invitation,\u201d says Rasheed, \u201cCome think with me.\u201d This short documentary film explores the artist\u2019s expansive ideas and miniaturist process in her book-filled, Brooklyn home studio; the film\u2019s exclusively close up style mirrors Rasheed\u2019s own preoccupation with fragments, slowly building up a portrait over time.<\/p>\n

From her studio, Rasheed sorts through stacks of childhood drawings and family photographs while recounting her father\u2019s conversion to Islam in the early 1980s. His method of note taking, excerpting, and annotating inspired Rasheed\u2019s own artistic practice. \u201cI was thinking of this idea of talking back to a text,\u201d says the artist, \u201cEach time we read something, we\u2019re annotating on the page or in our heads and creating a new text. It\u2019s this act of collaboration between the reader and the writer.\u201d At work on a new piece, Rasheed searches her books for specific shapes and styles of lettering, rather than particular words. She pieces together these fragments into longer phrases and sentences, intuitively creating combinations that code or complicate that which could be said plainly. Rather than jumping to understanding, viewers are invited to move more slowly and engage with works over and over again to create layers of meaning. For Rasheed, this approach also presents a powerful possibility for how we can publicly move through the world and create a kind of self-protection. \u201cI think a lot about what it actually means to make myself legible,\u201d says the artist. \u201cHow you present yourself to the world that\u2019s legible and appealing to people, versus I\u2019m not gonna make myself known until I\u2019m ready.\u201d \u00bb<\/p>\n

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https:\/\/art21.org\/2021\/10\/20\/five-new-films-for-fall-2021\/p \u00ab The Edge of LegibilityKameelah Janan Rasheed October 20, 2021 One of five new films from Art21\u2019s fall 2021 programming logo\u00b7\u200bphile | \\ \u02c8l\u022f-g\u0259-\u02ccf\u012b(-\u0259)l : a lover of words. A self-described \u201clearner,\u201d immersed in books since childhood, text-based artist Kameelah Janan Rasheed is uniquely fascinated with the written word and its power to both define and … Continuer la lecture de Kameelah Janan Rasheed. Artiste textuelle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-toutes-les-copies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lantb.net\/figure\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lantb.net\/figure\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lantb.net\/figure\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lantb.net\/figure\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lantb.net\/figure\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7033"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/lantb.net\/figure\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7402,"href":"http:\/\/lantb.net\/figure\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7033\/revisions\/7402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lantb.net\/figure\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lantb.net\/figure\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lantb.net\/figure\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}