Ideas Platform • Upcoming

Shireen Taweel
Cosmographic

25 Oct 2024 – 5 Jan 2025

Above: Shireen Taweel’s Studio, 2024. Photo: Garry Trinh 
Location
Artspace
43–51 Cowper Wharf Roadway
Woolloomooloo NSW 2011
Sydney Australia
Opening
Friday 25 October, 5.30–8pm

Shireen Taweel considers the history of migration and pilgrimage woven throughout the Arab Science of astronomy, mathematics and technologies of celestial navigation. Her recent work follows an inquiry into the intersection of science and faith, and how this has contributed to present understandings of cosmology and technological advancement. Her research culminates in a speculative imagining of future Space travel without the colonial narratives of possession and occupation.

Cosmographic provides insight into the artist’s work in development, featuring a range of manuscripts, maps, star charts, notations, drawings, translations, photographs and maquettes. Bringing these objects together, Taweel reaches back into the history of celestial navigation to envision a decolonial futurism.

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The Ideas Platform is supported by Andrew Cameron AM and Cathy Cameron.