Akhet by Shahira Hammad
Shahira Hammad’s Akhet is a homage to sTj-ḥb, the Festival Perfume, one of ancient Egypt’s Seven Sacred Oils which was part of a larger ritual structure tied to renewal, emergence, and alignment between body, land, and cosmic rhythm. Akhet, which is motivated by a desire to reimagine ritual in a time that no longer holds it, reclaims the perfume’s symbolic structure and reframes it for our time without attempting to restore what has been lost.
edition of 1
Akhet was part of the group exhibition “Volatile Derivatives”
Shahira Hammad’s Akhet is a homage to sTj-ḥb, the Festival Perfume, one of ancient Egypt’s Seven Sacred Oils which was part of a larger ritual structure tied to renewal, emergence, and alignment between body, land, and cosmic rhythm. Akhet, which is motivated by a desire to reimagine ritual in a time that no longer holds it, reclaims the perfume’s symbolic structure and reframes it for our time without attempting to restore what has been lost.
edition of 1
Akhet was part of the group exhibition “Volatile Derivatives”
Shahira Hammad’s Akhet is a homage to sTj-ḥb, the Festival Perfume, one of ancient Egypt’s Seven Sacred Oils which was part of a larger ritual structure tied to renewal, emergence, and alignment between body, land, and cosmic rhythm. Akhet, which is motivated by a desire to reimagine ritual in a time that no longer holds it, reclaims the perfume’s symbolic structure and reframes it for our time without attempting to restore what has been lost.
edition of 1
Akhet was part of the group exhibition “Volatile Derivatives”