Two twenty-something artists put their identity as 鈥渢hird-culture kids鈥� at the heart of their collaborative exhibition of ceramics, woven textiles and mixed-media installations at through May 15.
Both Kiki Salem and Saj Issa鈥檚 parents emigrated from the same village in the occupied West Bank, but it wasn鈥檛 until Salem鈥檚 family moved to St. Louis for her high school years that the two met and later shared an art class. Their friendship and collaboration has grown into exhibition 鈥淏ack Home In Your New Home.鈥�
Issa was born and raised in St. Louis. Salem was born in the West Bank; her family traveled between there and the United States for a bit before settling in Dayton, Ohio, and then St. Louis.
Their shared concerns as Palestinian-Americans based in the Midwest inform the work.
The show combines Issa鈥檚 ceramics, Salem鈥檚 woven textiles and the two artists鈥� shared thematic conceptualizations.
The pieces in the show evoke Arab domesticity, suggest the violent undertones of religion and acknowledge both the strictures and porousness of borders 鈥� between identities, religions and lands.
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