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Zineb Sedira
Themes of provenance, separation and return are key to Sedira's practice.
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and the questions surrounding a partial return to Algeria, apparent in Silent Sight, are resolved in the recent films Saphir, 2006 and Middle Sea, 2008.
In Silent Sight, Sedira remembers returning to Algeria as a child and the confusion she experienced when her mother donned the haik or veil.
'I remember,' she says in voice-over, 'as soon as we arrived, she would get it out, change into it, become it.' The 'it' is not named but signified by the tight framing of the artist's eyes, edged by two bands of white, mimicking the effect of a veiled face.
Discordant music intensifies the alienation the daughter recalls. The eyes look left as if seeking someone. 'The anxiety of confusing her with others would be lifted with a glance from her.' The artist's experience of the sudden threat to the symbiotic bond is brilliantly portrayed.
Her search for presence in absence, the personal in the d