{"id":2010,"date":"2017-06-11T11:06:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-11T11:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/?p=2010"},"modified":"2025-05-23T14:44:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T14:44:22","slug":"the-translators-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/index.php\/2017\/06\/11\/the-translators-silence\/2010","title":{"rendered":"The Translator&#8217;s Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/lenticular-all-in-one-640x356.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6308\" style=\"width:582px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/lenticular-all-in-one-640x356.jpg 640w, https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/lenticular-all-in-one-1280x711.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/lenticular-all-in-one-768x427.jpg 768w, https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/lenticular-all-in-one-1536x853.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/lenticular-all-in-one-2048x1138.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/lenticular-all-in-one-1024x569.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/lenticular-all-in-one-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/lenticular-all-in-one-900x500.jpg 900w, https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/lenticular-all-in-one-24x13.jpg 24w, https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/lenticular-all-in-one-36x20.jpg 36w, https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/lenticular-all-in-one-48x27.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-4fc3f8e1 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:21px\"><em><strong>The Translator\u2019s Silence<\/strong><\/em><strong><em><br><\/em><\/strong><em><strong>Shown at:  Purdy Hicks Gallery, London (2017) | Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago (2017) |  Mathaf Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha (2019)<\/strong><\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:15px\"><em> Three lenticular panels<br>22 inches x 36.6 inches each<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:17px\">When familiarity breeds only contempt, or at best indifference, the slim hope there is for solidarity lies in the kindness of strangers. the close ties between the words &#8216;host&#8217; , &#8216;hostility&#8217; and &#8216;hospitality\u2019\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:17px\"><em>hum ke thahrey ajnabi itni madaraaton ke baad<br>phir banai.ngain aashnaa kitni mulaqaton ke baad<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:17px\"><em>we who have been rendered strangers, after so many travails<br>how many meetings will it take for us to embrace each other again<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:17px\"><strong>Faiz Ahmed Faiz<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:17px\"><em>AAAchena-ke bhoy ki amaar ore ?<br>Achena-ke-i chiney-chiney uth-be jibon bhore<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:17px\"><em>what fear have I of strangers,<br>the cup of life will fill by knowing the unknown<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:17px\"><strong>Rabindranath Tagore<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:17px\"><em>Will you, beloved stranger, ever witness Shahid<br>two destinies at last reconciled by exiles?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:17px\"><strong>Agha Shahid Ali<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:17px\">The care of strangers is the gentlest and the sharpest form of sedition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:17px\">India, Pakistan, Kashmir &#8211; so many names for so many states of quarantine. So much familiarity, so much contempt. Better the admission of a future mutuality of strangeness than the bitter explosive ancestral familiarity of hatred. At least there will be questions left to ask of each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:17px\">None of these fragments appears in translation. The work moves directly from one language to the next, unmediated. To read it, viewers must seek out a \u2018stranger\u2019\u2014someone who speaks an unseen tongue\u2014to unlock its meaning. In doing so, the piece suggests that a \u2018stranger\u2019 can transform into a \u2018beloved\u2019 when once-adversarial destinies\u2014common across partitions and \u201clines of control\u201d\u2014meet through a willing encounter with the unknown. Such an encounter, crossing languages, memories, desires, and nightmares, may initially bring a loss of words. Strangers who venture into this space must first translate each other\u2019s silences before hearing each other\u2019s voices. That interval\u2014a fold between utterances\u2014carries the gift of silence. This take-away that takes the form of a fold between utterances, embodies a gift of that silence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:17px\">English, Bengali, and Urdu\/Hindustani are Raqs Media Collective\u2019s primary working languages; translation remains their mother tongue.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons has-custom-font-size has-regular-font-size is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-fe48e5de wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-25 has-custom-font-size has-small-font-size\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/index.php\/2012\/05\/23\/translators-silence\/14366\" style=\"border-radius:26px\">See also: Translator&#8217;s Silence (paper fold)<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery alignwide has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped 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