Emii Alrai, Traverse Vessel, 2023.Poster design by George Townsend.Anchorless Bodies: Navigating Arabic in Medieval Manuscripts with works by Emii Alrai. In 2023, EK curated an exhibition of works by Emii Alrai, alongside medieval manuscripts and artefacts. These medieval and modern objects were gathered together to display some of the routes through which Arabic texts came to medieval England. The phrase ‘Anchorless Bodies’ is one which Alrai has used to describe her artworks: sculptures and drawings inspired by archaeological excavations, medieval astronomy and ancient industrial practices. ‘Anchorless Bodies’ are unmoored in space and time: a condition which may be experienced by looted objects, ghosts, alchemical metals, celestial forms and immigrant communities. Through their shared experience, Alrai’s artworks entered into a dialogue with these premodern artefacts.
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