Profanities
Fadhel Mourali
PLA, polyester, and wood fibres
104 x 273 cm, and structure thickness of 3 cm
Out of the legacy of his Swedish great-grandfather, an artisan known as ‘the last basket maker from Risa’, Mourali has spun the wood fibres of these baskets into textiles through his own hands, whilst processing the fibres as pieces of storytelling. ‘Profanities’ wishes to serve as a dialogical patchwork, blurring the lines between tradition and its evolution, much like the concept of queering, it aims to broaden historical storytelling by embracing many and diverse forms of language.
Speaking with the voices of yesteryear through its materials, partly sourced from the local and intimate surroundings of the village of Risa in western Sweden, the piece aims to embrace the historically lived realities of its origin manifested through contemporary sensitivities, and question tradition, cultural norms through previously overlooked perspectives.