21/07/2026
Water for the Dragon. It begins with a 17th-century Caucasian Dragon Carpet preserved in the Museum for Islamic Art in Berlin. During the Second World War, an incendiary bomb destroyed a large part of the carpet. In its restoration, the missing areas were deliberately left visible, allowing the history of destruction to remain part of the work.
Many years later, a contemporary Doppelgänger was created to enter into dialogue with the surviving woven field of the original carpet.
Through CulturalxCollabs, I received Fragment No. 65 of this contemporary carpet and became part of the dialogue it had already begun.
While preparing to work with the fragment, I felt that one element was still missing: water.
I did not want to answer the fire, erase the loss, or correct the history of the carpet.
My attention remained with the Dragon.
As the water disappeared from my hand, one transparent bead remained. I sewed it into the woven surface of the fragment, where it rests almost invisibly like a drop of water.
This dialogue is especially meaningful to me because I come from the Caucasus.
I offer water to the Dragon.
One transparent bead. One real act.
Water for the Dragon.
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