that is complete (…)

that is complete. and knowledge is another marks Janan Rasheed’s return to Berlin after her 2023 solo exhibition at KW Institute for Contemporary Art. With a mainly autobiographical focus on her middle name Janan, from the Arabic root JNN, meaning to hide or conceal, this exhibition explores Rasheed’s emerging relationship to Sufi cosmology and the poetics of both spiritual and political [un]veiling. The veil—a popular and overused trope concerning Muslim women is not the focus of the show. In an expansive work comprising a constellation of video, prints, and annotations, Rasheed, who veils or wears the traditional hijab, considers not the fabric of veiling but rather our relationship to concealment through the trickster archetype who challenges us to consider questions of intimacy, proximity, and certainty. What truth is available to us? What truth is concealed?

that is complete. and knowledge is another – Kameelah Janan Rasheed
Solo exhibition at NOME, Berlin
April 25 – July 27 2024