Mina
Keykhaei

Not Quite There

Not Quite There is a layered textile work built around a dark horizontal form that rests close to the floor beneath cotton and matte chiffon. It stays with a kind of nearness that can be felt before it can be fully read.

Materials: cotton, matte chiffon, thread
Technique: hibiscus and rust dyeing, appliqué, sewing
Size: 40 × 47 in

Exhibition statement

Installation view of Not Quite There in The Hypervisible Woman and her Shadow at Ignite Gallery

With Inéz Petrazzini and Jasmine Liaw
Curated by Cassidy Alejandria
Photo documentation by Omid Bakhshsaei

Not Quite There / Text

Exhibition Statement

There are forms of knowledge that do not survive language. They are carried by those who live them, silently and collectively. Ordinary lives hold such knowledge. It exists only while being lived. When they fade, these qualities have nowhere to go. No archive holds them. Only something of their weight remains.

This knowledge does not offer itself freely on demand. It requires a certain way of approaching, a willingness to remain with what cannot be fully grasped. The moment we insist on full clarity—on being able to name, hold, and carry it—we begin to lose the thing itself.
NOT QUITE THERE