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Jumana Manna
Gutted, 2021

Photo: Glenn Geerinck
Jumana Manna
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Ceramics
46 x 38 x 45 cm
TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection
In her practice, Jumana Manna probes what she calls the “unruly potential of ruination and decay”, for therein lies an integral part of life and a potential for regeneration. In the body of work comprising Thirty Plumbers in the Belly, the artist fixes her gaze on the microbial passageways of wastewater. Imagining the journey of fluids through the body, a sewage system en miniature, Manna’s exploration engenders creaturely ceramics that linger, that lurk in the space. They bring to the surface forms that are usually concealed, whether beneath the ground or behind walls. Invoking pipe forms that have changed little since their advent in antiquity, the figures resemble both body parts and archaeological artefacts. Together they embody an age-old civilisatory impulse to counter contamination, to banish the abject rather than taking it into account or even using it as a creative force. 
- Catherine Nichols, Manifesta 14, 2022
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