Amphibia, 2023
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 freedom, movement, and creativity that stands in contradiction to the limitations and prohibitions of life on land.
Breathe underwater when you can no longer breathe on land. Like Amphibia: half-human, half-animal creature, Aysha E Arar breathes and lives in worlds to which the oppressive forces who appropriate the lands do not have access. Beyond the staging of a recovery of land or its dignity, it is a question of taking us into another world, over which no colonial or patriarchal force would have taken hold of.
Teaser of the video: here
