EARTH BODY THREAD
March 27th - May 5th
Hala Alsalman
@halalsalman
Omar Tarek zayed
@omar.t.zayed
Spencer Ginn
@spencerginn
Art direction: Zeina Nahas
@_______fragments
This exhibition gathers the work of Hala Alsalman, Omar Tarek Zayed, and Spencer Ginn around forms that feel older than any single history: vessels, fragments of bodies, patterned cloth, repeated marks. These recurring images gesture toward the sublime,
where the familiar slips into something vaster and harder to name. Here, clay, textile, and form do not simply cite Mesopotamian, North African, or Greco-Roman sources; they also blur timelines and mingle as ritual objects put together from an otherworldly archeological dig.
Alsalman’s clay forms, Zayed’s hand-dyed textiles, and Ginn’s ceramic vessels each approach matter as a carrier of memory and belief, but also as an active, almost sentient presence in the room. Taken together, the works suggest that what we call “the past” is
not fixed behind us; it moves through symbols, gestures, and materials that return again and again,
pressing against the limits of what can be contained or understood. The gallery becomes less an archive
than a quiet sanctuary, where viewers can encounter these works not as spectacle, but as a slow, inward recognition—a sense that these archetypal forms also inhabit their own inner worlds.
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