04/09/2026
π πΌ πΏ πΌ Ψ΅Ψ―Ω / ππ£ ππππ€ππ¨
Solo exhibition by Palestinian-American artist Charles Karim Aweida Charles Aweida
Join Friday Gallery for an opening reception with the artist on September 22, 7-9pm
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An echo is a presence without a body, a sound that continues after its source has gone quiet. In Arabic, π πΌ πΏ πΌ Ψ΅Ψ―Ω describes this return: resonance carried across distance, separated from its origin yet still bound to it. The echo always remembers the voice that breathed it into life.
To live in the Palestinian diaspora is to know this distance intimately. Home exists simultaneously as origin, memory, inheritance, and absence. The source becomes more distant, yet continues to shape identity and the physical and mental spaces we inhabit. What is inherited bends, adapts, disperses, and reconstitutes itself as it moves.
In π πΌ πΏ πΌ Ψ΅Ψ―Ω, Aweida constructs metallic bodies that fold echoes into waves, spirals, thresholds, and shifting gradient fields, with repeated elements changing in orientation and relationship as they move from the source. This is the condition of the echo. It is never identical to the sound that produced it. Distance delays it. Space redirects it. Its intensity changes. It may become faint, fragmented, or transformed. But something fundamental always survives the journey.
The works in π πΌ πΏ πΌ Ψ΅Ψ―Ω draw on the algorithms hidden in nature that have long shaped Aweidaβs practice. His precise aluminum geometries are built by inviting grand-scale manufacturing robotics to move in ways they never imagined, bending and shaping elements alongside Aweidaβs own hand. The Jacquard loom was humanityβs first code, a lineage Aweida extends in Sada as metalweaving.
Distance can alter the echo. It cannot erase its origin.
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Arabic Calligraphy by Ibrahim Zaki | Ψ₯Ψ¨Ψ±Ψ§ΩΩΩ
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Music by Palestinaian-Chilean musician NicolΓ‘s Jaar
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