Kemê : (5) Take My Hand

(5) Take My Hand is an evolving multisensory installation and artistic research touching on the old and persistent impulse to make and use symbols, objects, gestures and rituals to protect ourselves and others. Rooted in Kemê’s intimate and inherited relationship with the Hamsa/Khamsa, the work has grown through relationships with other technologies of protection.

Across objects, scent, gestures and encounters, protection appears as intimate and collective, material and spiritual, desired and sometimes contradictory. The works not only reflect on protective practices: they are attempts towards protection themselves, made with attention, intention, memory, belief and care.

The exhibition opens into a spatial and emotional ecology of thresholds, traces and invitations, leaving room for belief, doubt and uncertainty, and for forms of relation whose effects cannot always be seen, measured or explained.

What do we carry? What carries us?

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