Emerging and Submerging: The Push and Pull of Visibility in Alia Ali's Blue Note

In a November 2022 review for Glasstire, Rosa Boshier González takes readers through a journey of her visit to Foto Relevance's exhibition, Alia Ali's Blue Note.

 

"Alia Ali’s Blue Note evokes an alluring interrogation of power and of community-making through textiles. The exhibition’s visual impact and political weight burn in the retina well after one has left the gallery space. Ali’s sensory understanding of education, which she credits to her childhood in Yemen, makes for an artistic sensibility that bleeds from the frame, fills the white space, and demands a response beyond language."

 

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November 14, 2022