Mariam Ghani: Like Water from a Stone

In her 2014 single-channel video, Like Water from a Stone, Mariam Ghani uses performance to illuminate and personify issues around place and culture. The video traces millennia of geological and social changes in Norway, including those wrought by the discovery and extraction of oil. Ghani takes us along a historical journey, from unpopulated areas of rocky terrain along the North Sea to modern spaces like a playground built with used oil rig elements. Like Water from a Stone was made in collaboration with choreographer Erin Ellen Kelly and composer Qasim Ali Naqvi, whose haunting soundscape forms the audio backdrop for this arresting piece. 

This exhibition is made possible by the Susan B. Weatherbie Exhibition Fund