Pre(ab)sense — Basmah Felemban

Pre(ab)sense, 2014from the Sama Dance series, UV digital print and cutouts
150x150 cm

2D

Pre(ab)sense is about the truth of the conscience of being – to decipher the paradox of absence and presence of the human condition. Through the artist’s studies/research, she realizes that absence is not the antonym of presence rather than a part of it! * Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm.

Using a broken-down Islamic motif to symbolize presence or existence and then cutting specific elements of that motif to create yet another design of (the absence of the pattern). The artist speaks about the harmony in paradoxes, and being in peace and a part of the archetypes of existence Pre(Ab)sense is a codependent conscience. The supposition created is a harmonious state of being.
* Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness