Patterns Of Sensation - The Bodies Of Dolls by Salma Caller

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Title

Patterns Of Sensation - The Bodies Of Dolls by Salma Caller

Subject

Visual Arts
Visual Poetry

Description

This series of works on paper by artist Salma Ahmad Caller, explores the notion of the female body as an idea that is constructed, made like a folk doll’s body, from materials both real and imagined. The folk doll or fashion model is patterned and marked by how a society thinks about femininity. Each material used to make ‘her’ carries it’s own set of cultural notions, sensations and associations. ‘She’ is often ornamented with patterned textiles, jewels, silk, velvet, embroidery, pearls, shells, tassels, bells, or associated with flowers, fruits and fertility, or with lace, nets, knots and webs, creating textures that carve ‘her’ body into zones of social and sexual importance.

Forces of cultural and social expectations mark and carve our bodies but also the things we touch and feel are etched onto us, mapping zones and patterns of our experiences, our traumas and losses, our sensuality and feeling.
Bringing the biological and the ornamental together to subvert the usual imagery of the female body, Salma uses decorative and ornamental forms, arabesques, whiplash and sinuous lines, and curvilinear shapes in her work, as a language of the biological sensational body, to try and capture the body we feel not the body we think we see.



Salma Ahmad Caller
is an artist and a hybrid of cultures and faiths. She is drawn to hybrid and ornamental forms, and to how the body expresses itself in the mind to create an embodied ‘image’. UK based, she was born in Iraq to an Egyptian father and a British mother and grew up in Nigeria and Saudi Arabia. With a background in art history and theory, medicine and pharmacology, and several years teaching cross-cultural ways of seeing via non-Western artefacts at Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, she now works as an independent artist and teacher.

Online URL: https://poethead.wordpress.com/2017/07/20/patterns-of-sensation-the-bodies-of-dolls-by-salma-caller/

Creator

Salma Ahmad Caller

Source

Salma Ahmad Caller website 

Online URL: https://www.salmaahmadcaller.com/ 

Patterns Of Sensation - The Bodies Of Dolls (Poethead 2008 - 2021)

Online URL: https://poethead.wordpress.com/2016/11/30/the-infinite-body-of-sensation-visual-poetry-by-salma-caller/

Publisher

Chris Murray - WordPress

Date

2017 -

Contributor

Salma Ahmad Caller

Rights

© Salma Ahmad Caller

Relation

Poethead 2008 -2021

Format

Digital Image, Online Publication, Web, Photography, Collage, Paper

Language

Visual, Textual

Type

Visual Arts, Image, Poetry, Poetics

Identifier

Web Resource

Coverage

Global