Aysha E Arar, 'Amphibia', Beit Hagefen Haida

Amphibia is the ability to live and operate in water and on land, an ability which characterizes the Amphibians, mythological creatures, and weapons. Aysha E Arar translates the duality of the biological term into a duality of imagination and reality; The water world is a space of imagination, freedom, movement, and creativity that stands in contradiction to the limitations and prohibitions of in the life on land. This duality exposes her struggle with the inherent conflict between tradition and progress, between collective identity and a personal one, between the function in the domestic sphere and self-fulfillment, which is common to women in traditional Muslim society.