Muna Mussie - Towards the image

I am strongly fascinated by the physical theory that man is mostly composed of emptiness, an emptiness that I like to translate into cosmic oblivion, an energetic emptiness/fullness, a teeming reservoir of images in the making.

The recent works, Curva Cieca (Blind Curve) and Oblio (Oblivion) are closely related by an investigation of the image starting from certain specific deficiencies: the mother tongue, sight, memory.

The devices used to formalise this investigation were:  experimental didactics in Blind Curve, guided by the words of a blind person, for video and scene. In Oblivion, an installation in public space, activated by the practice of embroidery.

The research continues by questioning the image, starting from two divergent perspectives: a dialogue between sighted and blind people. Verbal exercises and physical exercises, exchanges of personal and impersonal knowledge will be carried out, by crossing two different languages: Braille - a method of writing and reading for the blind and visually impaired - and Embroidery. Both these languages, follow a system dictated by dots that imprint or perforate a surface, bringing to light a sign, a shape, an image between the visible, invisible and tactile.The process of this research will lead to discover what the layering of these two languages produces.