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A central theme in Alymamah Rashed’s work is the belief that bodily connection to specific environments and elements can facilitate spiritual awakening. This idea shapes her latest body of work, presented in her solo exhibition Mirrors from the Sidewalk at Tabari Artspace.

Rashed connects her personal experiences to Deleuze's theory of difference in repetition. She reflects on how the cyclical nature of the earth provides fresh encounters. In her four-panel series I have fixed your roots in the soils of my earth to reach your 7 skies (for I am near your heart), for example, she presents …