Statement

“APHORISMS”

The recent increase in violence and incendiary rhetoric (which in turn, only begets more violence), has affected me deeply as it has most people. As tensions rise and the world braces for an ideological standoff, perhaps now, more than ever, there is a need for understanding and open discourse which addresses the similarities of religious tenets and faiths rather than the differences.

Having worked with women of divergent cultures and backgrounds and concentrating on the nexus of their commonality in my previous work, I extend this research into the realm of women with differing religious faiths. Rather than stressing conventional mainstream imagery and the stereotypical separation of three organized religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam), I intend to evoke more flexibility and potential for both the dismantling of existing dominant understanding of power and knowledge, and the construction of a new multiplicity of power and knowledge for the diverse communities of women who are not a unified group, but rather, are fractured by class, race, age and religion. With this body of work, I intended to create a homogeneous identity by asking women of different religions to be presented on the same platform and to share their stories with the viewers.