Soft Power Clashing Choose Your Player the Cordova Fitna F.C. #3
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Soft Power Clashing Choose Your Player the Cordova Fitna F.C.
2024
Custom football kits with gold CORDOVA nameplates, tassels, jewelry, bells, hand screen printed tags (suitable for framing)
Dimensions Variable
Edition of 7 (All unique)
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The Fitna of Al-Andalus (1009–1031) was a period of civil war that fragmented the once-unified Caliphate of Córdoba into numerous independent kingdoms. This era of division and rivalry set the stage for a cultural renaissance, where art and science flourished amidst the chaos.
Each shirt is accompanied by a hand-screen-printed tag featuring the 'Cordova Fitna FC' logo designed and screen printed by Sophia Al-Maria in Arabic calligraphy reading Cordo-V-a with a Farsi ‘V' adding yet another hybrid layer to the piece. These tags are not just labels but pieces of art in their own right, suitable for framing. The kits can also be framed.
By donning a Cordova Fitna FC shirt, you're not just making a fashion statement; you're embracing a piece of history, celebrating the beauty that can emerge from division, and showcasing the enduring spirit of spaces like this one.
Inspired by this historical schism, each Fitna FC shirt is a unique amalgamation of two different football team kits, meticulously sewn together. This design symbolizes the merging of distinct identities, much like the kingdoms of Al-Andalus emerging from the Fitna. Adding a playful nod to personal expression, our shirts come with optional nipple tassels, bells and pearl-laden epaulettes as well as a custom CORDOVA nameplate. Whether you choose to wear them on one side, both, or not at all, these tassels allow you to tailor your look to your mood, echoing the dynamic and ever-changing nature of Cordova!
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Sophia Al-Maria is a Qatari-American artist, writer, and filmmaker living and working in London. Though her work spans many disciplines including drawing, collage, sculpture and film it is united by a preoccupation with the power of storytelling and myth, and in particular with imagining revisionist histories and alternative futures.
Al-Maria has had recent solo exhibitions at Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha; La Biennale di Venezia, Venice; LUMA Arles; Tate Britain, London, and numerous others. She is the author of three books: Sad Sack (Book Works, London, 2019 & 2023), Virgin with a Memory (Cornerhouse Publications, Manchester, 2014), and The Girl Who Fell to Earth (Harper Perennial, New York, 2012).