Basmah Felemban
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‘Murmur of Pebbles’
The Jeddah-born artist’s work “explores the valley as a living archive of movement and time,” according to the show catalogue. It draws on the lore of Felemban’s fictional creation, the catfish-like Jirry tribe, whom she has previously described as “wandering creatures that mine data from the land to guide their travels.”
She continued: “Their elders teach that every pebble carries a memory of motion carved by floods, smoothed by collisions, and molded by the push and pull of time. From holding and rolling a single pebble in their hand, a Jirry can read the history of the valley’s waters and winds. … Subtle imbalances in curvature record cycles of collision, rest, and reactivation, allowing the pebble’s form itself to speak of motion, duration, and change.”
