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S A D A  صدى  / On Echoes

Solo Exhibition
by Palestinian-American artist
Charles Karim Aweida

ON VIEW SEPT 22 — DEC 15

An echo is a presence without a body, a sound that continues after its source has gone quiet.
In Arabic, 𝙎𝘼𝘿𝘼  صدى is sonic resonance, 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 bends, adapts, disperses, and reconstitutes itself as it moves.

In 𝙎 𝘼 𝘿 𝘼  صدى, 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. 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. But something fundamental always survives the journey. 

The works in 𝙎 𝘼 𝘿 𝘼  صدى 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. 

Distance can alter the echo. It cannot erase its origin.

CHARLES KARIM AWEIDA

ALL WORKS

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ATHAR I أثر
clear anodized aluminum media blasted,
black and clear anodized aluminum wire
70" x 70" x 8"
2026

12,000 USD

ATHAR II أثر
black anodized aluminum, media blasted
waxed aluminum wire
44" x 44" x 8"
2026

7,000 USD

TAYF I طيف
clear anodized aluminum media blasted,
waxed aluminum wire
35.25" x 32.5" x 5"
2026

5,000 USD

TAYF Il طيف
clear anodized aluminum media blasted,
waxed aluminum wire
35" x 33" x 5"
2026

5,000 USD

TAYF Ill طيف
clear anodized aluminum, media blasted
waxed aluminum wire
33.25" x 29.5" x 5"
2026

5,000 USD

MADA I مدى
clear anodized aluminum, media blasted
waxed aluminum wire
44.5" x 67" x 4"
2026

7,000 USD

MADA II مدى
clear anodized aluminum, media blasted
waxed aluminum wire
44.5" x 67" x 4"
2026

7,000 USD

MADA III مدى
clear anodized aluminum, media blasted
waxed aluminum wire
44.5" x 67" x 4"
2026

7,000 USD

ATABA I عتبة
clear anodized aluminum, media blasted
waxed aluminum wire
18" x 18" x 24"
2026

3,000 USD

ATABA II عتبة
clear anodized aluminum, media blasted
waxed aluminum wire
18" x 18" x 24"
2026

3,000 USD

ATABA III عتبة
clear anodized aluminum, media blasted
waxed aluminum wire
18" x 18" x 24"
2026

3,000 USD

ATABA IV عتبة
clear anodized aluminum, media blasted
waxed aluminum wire
18" x 18" x 24"
2026

3,000 USD

ATABA V عتبة
clear anodized aluminum, media blasted
waxed aluminum wire
18" x 18" x 24"
2026

3,000 USD