CHARLES KARIM AWEIDA
SADA صدى / On Echoes
OPENING RECEPTION SEPT 22, 7-9PM
Sada صدى / On Echoes
Solo exhibition by Palestinian-American artist Charles Karim Aweida
An echo is a presence without a body, a sound that continues after its source has gone quiet. In Arabic, Sada (صدى) describes this return: resonance carried across distance, separated from its origin yet still bound to it.
The echo always remembers the voice that breathed it into life.
To live in the Palestinian diaspora is to know this distance intimately. Home exists simultaneously as origin, memory, inheritance, and absence. The source becomes more distant, yet continues to shape identity and the physical and mental spaces we inhabit. What is inherited is not static. It bends, adapts, disperses, and reconstitutes itself as it moves.
In Sada, Aweida constructs metallic bodies that fold echoes into waves, spirals, thresholds, and shifting gradient fields, with repeated elements changing in orientation and relationship as they move from the source. Transformations are central to Sada: lines stretch, but never break. Dense structures disperse into sparseness. Familiar geometries bend, extend, and transform, reorganizing without surrendering their continuity. What is carried forward cannot remain untouched by the conditions through which it passes.
This is the condition of the echo. It is never identical to the sound that produced it. Distance delays it. Space redirects it. Its intensity changes. It may become faint, fragmented, or transformed. Yet something fundamental survives the journey, allowing the origin to remain within what returns.
The works in Sada draw on the algorithms hidden in nature that have long shaped Aweida’s practice. His precise aluminum geometries are built by inviting grand-scale manufacturing robotics to move in ways they never imagined, bending and shaping elements alongside Aweida’s own hand. The Jacquard loom was humanity’s first code, a lineage Aweida extends in Sada as metalweaving.
Sada exists as intervals: between origin and distance, presence and absence, inheritance and transformation. Distance can alter the echo. It cannot erase its origin.
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S A D A صدى
CHARLES KARIM AWEIDA
On View Sept 22– Dec 15, 2026
Friday Gallery, RowDTLA
767 S. Alameda St #198, Los Angeles, CA 90021
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