through the looking-glass
A metamorphosis of counter-hegemonic visual existence
“Al-Komash“
"AL-KOMASH" directed by Nadia Khashan Executive producer/Designer: Manal Fathi Artist: Lejla Dendic Model: Whitney Kiala Music: Evin Kücükali D.O.P - Camera 2: Nadia Khashan Cinematographer: Marcus Milne Editor: Nadia Khashan Production assistant: Dennis Markner
Transfigurations of an intercultural Bias
18,5 cm x 20,2cm; fineliner and watercolour on paper; 2020 This piece grapples with the hypocrisy of the face veil bans for Muslim Women, which in France came into law in 2011, as well as Québéc‘s face-covering ban, which came into law in 2017. Moreover, it addresses the bone of contention in the narrative around the […]
Jadal
جدلI shall dreamسأحلم Voriger Nächster 2022 “The woman who sees without being seen frustrates the coloniser.” (Franz Fanon) These words of Ibrahim Frantz Fanon still carry considerable weight as we attempt to decipher why the world still holds on to imperial feminism and denies Muslim Women freedom, safety, equal opportunities, and education by forcing them […]
The tale of a repetitive image maker
https://lejla-dendic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Schattentheater.mp4 Shadow Puppet Theatre, made in collaboration with Katharina Göppert Length: 6min:16Sec., 2020 The tale of a repetitive image maker The socio-semantic earthquake produced by Covid-19 compels us to yet again think about the dangerously consistent pattern of an Islamophobic and racist rhetoric in our media outlets orbiting
Transmogrification 1
Voriger Nächster “Transmogrification 1/2” and “Recontextualisation” are a call to a reflective musing amid sensual evocations. A call to de-familiarise the familiar and to dismantle patriarchal fantasies and structures. The focus of these pieces lays on the fabric itself, in fact, a multitude of different fabrics (silk, cotton, jersey, viscose) were used to patch something up, whic