Aidha Badr Explores Female Desire in Solo Exhibition Borrowing from Anne Carson
Aidha Badr's solo exhibition 'When I Desire You A Part Of Me Is Gone' at Canvas draws its title from Anne Carson's 'Eros the Bittersweet'. The show investigates female desire through memory and attachment theory, particularly the mother-daughter dynamic. Badr references Nancy Kulish and Deanna Holtzman's 'The Persephone Complex' and incorporates a recurring red sun motif from Johnny Cash's 'You Are My Sunshine'. The exhibition runs at Canvas.
Key facts
- Exhibition title is a line from Anne Carson's 'Eros the Bittersweet'
- Badr explores female desire using memory and attachment theory
- References Nancy Kulish and Deanna Holtzman's 'The Persephone Complex'
- Painting 'Her Cloth Was Cut From Heaven, She Wished To Be Me And I Wished To Be Her' (2021) depicts a girl with a doll
- Recurring red sun motif comes from Johnny Cash's 'You Are My Sunshine'
- Carson's book analyzes desire through Ancient Greek poets and philosophers
- Exhibition is at Canvas
- Artist examines how mother figure shapes female development
Entities
Artists
- Aidha Badr
- Anne Carson
- Sappho
- Aristophanes
- Socrate
- René Descartes
- Johnny Cash
- Nancy Kulish
- Deanna Holtzman
Institutions
- Canvas