BOOK PUBLICATION
Highly Strung
2022
365 limited edition copies in large format of Aya Haidar's large-scale installation, Highly Strung.
Highly Strung is a durational body of work, which explores notions of motherhood, domesticity, and the invisibility of a woman’s labour. Produced over 365 days, Haidar made a record of an act of invisible labour she accomplished, one for every day of the year.
These mundane acts are the sum of her every day, as mother, wife, caregiver, and woman.
Each act has been carefully embroidered onto an item found within the home and presented, literally, Highly Strung on washing lines.
Haidar repositions the domestic space as a political site, exploring its relationship to artistic work, repetition, care work, paid/unpaid, cleaning, parenting, and the working body.
