Tahireh Lal
Metaphysical Gravity
Metaphysical Gravity is an art exhibition that uses movement and stasis in sculpture, video and audio to reflect on the condition of contemporary mobility. This is addressed through a self-‐reflexive art practice that is informed by auto-‐ethnographic reflection supported by interviews. The concept of affect and its relationship to memory and the body is explored and illustrated with insights on the shifting nature of home within migration. The adaptation process as a negotiation of familiarity and strangeness. The studio practice engages these relationships through explorations of sand, magnetism and speech. The artwork generated manifests material and temporal behaviors that speak to the simultaneity of movement and stasis. The assertion that mobility is afforded by the coexistence of stasis and dynamism, familiarity and unfamiliarity is derived from a key principle of the mobilities paradigm: any mobility has its immobile counterpart.