Slope Slippah

Slope Slippah

Made during the 20200 “Fruga Art Trail” in Rab, Croatia and organized by Der KREIS Gallery in Nuremberg, Germany

- International Artists' Symposium on the Croatian island of Rab
- 35 international artists
#FrugaArtTrail

Khan’s work invites you to dance, flip, and flop with a view. Her sculpture or “slippah” as they call it in Hawaiʻi, surveys her exploration of the interconnected histories of cultural production between Croatia and Hawai’i. Upon arriving to Rab, she learned of the entangled history between Hawaiʻi’s last Queen Liliʻuokalani and her partner John Owen Dominis, whose father was from Rab. This work reflects on the movement, lineage, and trauma of past lives which secrete themselves in our everyday experiences.

While playful and inviting, the work also invites you to recalibrate, yield, react, and respond holistically to this unique space. She offers a perspective on our place within the infinite impermanence of universal matter.