Artist Statement 

Exhibition at Digitale Zone, Marseille and Musée Dehors (Museum Outside), Caen, June 1, 2022 – June 1, 2023

Generative art. This body of work codifies weaving patterns of rabaal fabric, typically used in Senegal for weddings and baptisms. The fabric covers a bride as she leaves her parents’ home to join her husband or to cover a mother and her newborn. It’s a dense fabric with geometric patterns woven by artisans whose craft was perfected over generations. Beneath the soothingly repetitive patterns of rabaal, there is elegant mathematics at play. The knowledge of these patterns and how to weave them is passed down from generations of traditional dyers and weavers. https://www.artpoint.fr/artworks/benn-maam-linda-dounia

• • Linda Dounia Rebeiz (Senegal) is an artist and designer who investigates the philosophical and environmental implications of techno-capitalism. She is inspired by science fiction, speculative design, solarpunk, and degrowth. Her work mediates her memories as alternative truths and evidence of excluded ways of being and doing. It is formed through the dialogue (and tensions) between analogue and digital mediums. In 2023, Linda was recognized on the TIMEAI100 list of most influential people in Al for her work on speculative archiving – building Al models that help us remember what is lost.  https://lindarebeiz.com/