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On a November eve in 1990, Etel Adnan wrote “The weather is uncertain tonight, as is my soul.”1 Adnan’s writing in the book Of Cities & Women (Letters to Fawwaz) searches for the fragments of her plural identities. In letters sent to Fawwaz Traboulsi (historian and editor of Zawaya who commissioned Adnan to write an essay on feminism for a special issue on “Arab Women”), Adnan responded with observations throughout a journey that took her to Barcelona, Aix-en-Provence, Skopelos, Murcia, Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, and Beirut. In her poignant letters, Adnan contemplates gender, geography, culture, war, and even death. These contemplations lead her to investigate her own positioning as a woman artist, articulating this in the intimate and existential “Who I am, what I am good for, into what kind of an order do I fit, for what purpose I act, what road I must take?”, these crucial inquiries of purpose, responsibility, and engagement are as relevant today as they were then.
Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien
Die Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien setzt sich für eine offene Gesellschaft ein, schafft intellektuelle, kreative Freiräume und sorgt für einen ebenso kritischen wie empathischen Diskurs. Gemeinsam mit Lehrenden und Forschenden, Studierenden und Absolvierenden, Mitarbeitenden sowie Partner:innen entwickelt die Angewandte künstlerische und radikale Lösungen zur Gestaltung und Bewältigung von technologischem, medialem und sozialem Wandel.
The weather is uncertain tonight, as is my soul.
9 Mar 2023 - 6 May 2023
Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien: Ausstellungszentrum Heiligenkreuzer Hof, Schönlaterngasse, Wien, Österreich
Etel Adnan, Manifeste pour la Fin de l'Être de Akl Awi, 2017, Courtesy Saradar Collection Beirut
The weather is uncertain tonight, as is my soul.
