Orange Palms, from the series FLUX

© Alia Ali, courtesy of Galerie Peter Sillem

Orange Palms, from the series FLUX

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Art of the Islamic World

Orange Palms, from the series FLUX,

2019

Alia Ali, born 1985, Austria; active Marrakesh, Morocco and Los Angeles, CA
2021-4

MIGRANT MANIFESTO

Assimilation is violence.

It is to make us strangers to the ancestral knowledge that has run through our veins for centuries. It is the active erasure of our pasts in order to fit someone else’s vision of the future.

It makes us strangers to ourselves—and each other.

We arrive and strive to be like them . . .

. . . only to discover that we can never be anyone else than ourselves.

My work is dedicated to those hidden in plain sight—the migrants—it is a reminder of our royalty that once was, and still is—the beauty in our color, the poetry in our narratives, and the song in our accents.

If we are not honored by others, then we have the power to honor each other.

My work is dedicated to (you/us).

Alia Ali

Information

Title
Orange Palms, from the series FLUX
Dates

2019

Maker
Alia Ali
Medium
Inkjet print with wax print fabric
Dimensions
frame: 124.6 × 88.6 × 7 cm (49 1/16 × 34 7/8 × 2 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund
Object Number
2021-4
Culture
American, Yemeni, Bosnian
Type
inkjet prints, textiles, cloth, photographs
Materials
cloth
Techniques
cerography, inkjet printing
Subject
geometric patterns, fashion, cloth, headgear, portraits

The artist; [Galerie Peter Sillern, Frankfurt, Germany]; purchased by the Princeton University Art Museum, 2021.

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