Uploaded September 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
ARTIST: farwamoledina.com
EXHIBITION: theherbert.org/whats_on/1533/thirteen_ways_of_looking
2 October – 13 December 2020
Farwa Moledina’s work is concerned with the lived experiences of Muslim women. Her work for this exhibition explores the erasure that Muslim women have faced throughout history. Its title ‘Thawra’, meaning ‘Revolution’, is a term and concept which gained momentum and notoriety in the protests of the Arab Spring.
This piece is concerned with revolutionary Muslim women and explores the erasure that Muslim women have faced throughout history. Its title ‘Thawra’, meaning ‘Revolution’, is a term and concept which gained momentum and notoriety in the protests of the Arab Spring.
The work is comprised of a pattern woven through columns of gold thread. It features an unwoven outline of Alaa Salah, one of many Sudanese women leading protests against the government in April 2019. This image of Salah taken by Lana Haroun went viral on social media, but largely within Muslim communities. Salah has risen to be a prominent contemporary symbol of female leadership in Islam.
Farwa’s choice to leave the outline unwoven is a political one and symbolises the erasure that Muslim women face, both historically and in contemporary society. The pattern woven within includes images or symbols of other revolutionary Muslim women including Asma Jahangir, Dr. Hawa Abdi, Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim, a tile from the Fatima Al Fihri Al Qarawiyyin University, and the shrine of Sayyidah Zainab Bint Ali. Farwa’s work often centers around the theme of Muslim Female empowerment. This piece is an homage to six different Muslim women of all ages, races, backgrounds and across generations (626 AD - 2019) with two common threads that weave them together, they are Muslim women and they have spoken up.
#13WaysofLooking
ARTIST: farwamoledina.com
EXHIBITION: theherbert.org/whats_on/1533/thirteen_ways_of_looking
2 October – 13 December 2020
Farwa Moledina’s work is concerned with the lived experiences of Muslim women. Her work for this exhibition explores the erasure that Muslim women have faced throughout history. Its title ‘Thawra’, meaning ‘Revolution’, is a term and concept which gained momentum and notoriety in the protests of the Arab Spring.
This piece is concerned with revolutionary Muslim women and explores the erasure that Muslim women have faced throughout history. Its title ‘Thawra’, meaning ‘Revolution’, is a term and concept which gained momentum and notoriety in the protests of the Arab Spring.
The work is comprised of a pattern woven through columns of gold thread. It features an unwoven outline of Alaa Salah, one of many Sudanese women leading protests against the government in April 2019. This image of Salah taken by Lana Haroun went viral on social media, but largely within Muslim communities. Salah has risen to be a prominent contemporary symbol of female leadership in Islam.
Farwa’s choice to leave the outline unwoven is a political one and symbolises the erasure that Muslim women face, both historically and in contemporary society. The pattern woven within includes images or symbols of other revolutionary Muslim women including Asma Jahangir, Dr. Hawa Abdi, Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim, a tile from the Fatima Al Fihri Al Qarawiyyin University, and the shrine of Sayyidah Zainab Bint Ali. Farwa’s work often centers around the theme of Muslim Female empowerment. This piece is an homage to six different Muslim women of all ages, races, backgrounds and across generations (626 AD - 2019) with two common threads that weave them together, they are Muslim women and they have spoken up.
#13WaysofLooking
