Solo exhibition at Savannah Innovation Labs, Khartoum, Sudan, 2021

“Born in memory” discusses a collection of artworks created during quarantine in 2020. It dives into the levels of the unconscious. It discusses the relationships between spaces, emotions, souls and their connection to our memory.

In a still moment of remembrance, we travel to the rooms in our minds that hold each of our memories. Room by room you visit the places that contain your life experiences, your emotions, the sensation each situation provoked and you stand still in time to yet again perceive this memory in a different manner.

Memory is a tricky subject that can be deceiving at times. And just like people, places and spaces have a memory that is projected in different ways and that connects to each of us differently. What a space or room resembles to one, most likely does not appear to the other similarly. 

“Born in memory” dives into the levels of the unconscious. It discusses the relationships between spaces, emotions, souls and their connection to our memory. It projects what we perceive with our eyes that work as portals into the souls and at the same time as a window to the outside. A see through window that allows the viewer a glimpse of the rooms we keep building over time.

Aljeally’s collection is dominated by a feminine presence that emerges from her constant observations of the female character and its positioning in the society. The paintings portray female figures situated in enclosures that may be rooms or a representation of a non physical space, it may be a feeling, a sensation or a memory that is projected into the form of a being. 

Surrounded by everyday objects, the figures seem detached, displaced and distanced from their environment. A nonchalant, bored position that is in waiting while their minds wander into the unknown depths of memory.