The Eleventh View of Time — Basmah Felemban

The Eleventh View of Time, 2022Video projection on floating screen
7:22 mins

Video Catfish

Felemban seeks to build an imaginative world, looking beyond the human from the perspective of the catfish. Rather than taking the audience deeper into their own world, they instead enter that of another species, embarking on the surreal story that brought these fish from their original home to the middle of Najd’s desert. The surreal and thought-provoking narratives are based on the Indonesian author Ikhda Ayuning Maharsi Degoul’s collection of poems ‘The Gold Fish’ which trace a journey of self-awareness and rebirth from the limited world of a fishbowl to a freedom that was difficult to achieve.