To be moved as a child, to live with displacement as a condition, to exist stretched between two poles and always slightly to the side. How do you narrate a deeply personal story of coming to know your own identity when it is formed through multilayered exchanges of meanings, forms, and memories, where fragments slide apart, cross, and occasionally find new ways of meeting?
Earthly Bonds, the commissioned work for Borealis by Jaleh Negari, begins here: investigating displacement as an abstract concept — where shifted blocks move in sequenced horizontal and vertical flows — and as a concrete lived experience shaped by migration, memory, linguistic confusion, and cultural fragmentation. It unfolds through layered sonic and visual forms, weaving graphic scores, fragmented patterns, and rhythmic sequences into a multisensory exploration of movement, memory, and relations.
The work is closely connected to Negari's exhibition at Lydgalleriet, ما به هم می رسیم | we reach each other, which presents a complementary perspective on these ideas through sound, visual and spatial forms.
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