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Please join us at @centre3_ this Friday May 12, from 7PM to 10PM for the opening reception of Rolla Tahir: I've Heard the Bedouins Singing! @smoking.apples

Main Gallery | May 5 to June 30, 2023
Curated by Lesley Loksi Chan @lesleyloksichan
Free Admission | Wheelchair Accessible

In Tahir’s debut solo exhibition, I’ve Heard the Bedouins Singing, she departs from her moving-image practice to create a suite of handwoven works made from celluloid and wool, merging her personal connections to filmmaking and the textile techniques of tatreez and Al Sadu. In this series of weavings, Tahir wraps yarn around sprocket holes of 35mm filmstrips to form colourful geometric patterns with open-ended edges, occasionally leaving a few frames uncovered to reveal glowing windows of still images. The filmstrips are outtakes from Tahir’s independent work Int’maa (2018) as well as older commercial film trailers gleaned from a local theatre’s projection booth, including trailers from the Canadian cult classics I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987) directed by Patricia Rozema and Bollywood/Hollywood (2002) directed by Deepa Mehta. While the machine-processed film surfaces are clear and glossy, Tahir’s hand-treated footage is cloudy and distressed from being immersed in oil and bleach, an experimental film technique she learned from Toronto-based filmmaker Eva Kolcze. In every work, celluloid forms varying structures beneath varying wool and consequently, film images are hidden or unhidden depending on what Tahir decides we can view. In Tahir’s hands, weaving becomes a form of film editing, drawing our attention to how women’s labour and resourcefulness cuts across cinema, art and craft. 

This exhibition is generously supported by @ontarioartscouncil @canada.council and @cityofhamilton

🏷Detailed view of Rolla Tahir,  سیوة / Siwa, 2023. Celluoid, wool 18” x 90” NFS. 

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