Salma Ahmad Caller

Salma Ahmad Caller

Displaced Body: Marguerite and I

Marguerite is a little porcelain doll's head, German, late 18th century. I found her at Spitalfield's Market in London. She is my alter ego. She is on a quest to find her body. I photograph Marguerite using a vintage Vidicon lens and combine drawing, found objects and painting to create a variety of environments. Her absent body suggests both displacement and the empathy of the body with the materials of the world. Extended physiological proprioception and mirror neurones allow us to become the world and the world becomes us.

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All Femina ornamentalis Album of Afterlives Shell Fables ~ a Curious Cabinet of Beings & Becoming Film 2022 Making The Postcard Women’s Imaginarium 2022 Arts Council Forms of Migration Berlin 2021/2022 Crossing Formations Emergent Dreams 2020 Atlas Series 2020 Reclamation: Postcards of Women 2019 Speechless Installation 2018 Limited Edition Artist Prints Eye of the Body 2018 Infinite Body 2017 Material Body 2017 Hybrid Grotesque Ornamental Body 2017 Urlinie 2016 Displaced Body: Marguerite and I 2016 Sound Tales and Objects 2016

Femina ornamentalis Album of Afterlives Shell Fables ~ a Curious Cabinet of Beings & Becoming Film 2022 Making The Postcard Women’s Imaginarium 2022 Arts Council Forms of Migration Berlin 2021/2022 Crossing Formations Emergent Dreams 2020 Atlas Series 2020 Reclamation: Postcards of Women 2019 Speechless Installation 2018 Limited Edition Artist Prints Eye of the Body 2018 Infinite Body 2017 Material Body 2017 Hybrid Grotesque Ornamental Body 2017 Urlinie 2016 Displaced Body: Marguerite and I 2016 Sound Tales and Objects 2016