Ana Gallardo, Don Raúl, 2010.
Video, 9´20", Courtesy the artist
Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Nasan Tur, Berlin says..., 2009.
Vídeo digital, 6´32", Courtesy the artist.
Presented by Neuer Berliner Kunstverein n.b.k., Berlín, Alemania
Rahraw Omarzad, Gaining and Losing.., 2012.
Vídeo digital SD, 6’, Courtesy the artist
Centre for Contemporary Arts, Kabul, Afganistán
Ana Gallardo, Don Raúl, 2010
Video, 9´20", Courtesy the artist
Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina
“We went to Mexico with the idea of inviting Don Raul, a man of 93 years old, to dance at the 29th Sao Paulo Biennial in 2010.We wanted him to travel with us, to give dance lessons. I had seen him dancing on several occasions. A man of ballrooms, great dancer of popular rhythms. I went to look for him at the park but he wasn´t there, we wait for him a whole month.When he returned to the park, he told us that he had escaped from a hospital, he was a little sick. He danced all day long”
Ana Gallardo, 2010
Ana Gallardo Self-taught. In 1985 she began to study painting in the workshops of master artists, trying to constitute a formal training. Since 1987 she presents her work in solo and group exhibitions, participates in residencies and support grants for specific projects in Argentina and abroad.She also performes parallel curatorial practices, trying to create opportunities for exposure, reflection and construction of a context.
www.anagallardo.com
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Nasan Tur, Berlin says..., 2009
Vídeo digital, 6´32", Courtesy the artist. Presented by Neuer Berliner Kunstverein n.b.k., Berlín, Alemania
The work Berlin Says... is part of the series City says..., which Nasan Tur (b. 1974 in Offenbach / Germany, based in Berlin), apart from Berlin, also realized in Istanbul, Belgrade, Vienna, Ljubljana, Milan and Stuttgart. In Berlin says ... the artist explores the interactive structure of language, cultural codes and symbols in public space. He brings together more than one hundred graffiti tags from Berlin house walls and sprays them on an inside wall of his studio, one slogan on top of the other, until at the end a homogeneous red surface emerges. The single letters and the content of each statement are becoming less and less visible. With this performance, the artist does not only question the communicative value of these statements, but also addresses the use of certain expressions in different systems and social classes as well as the shift of meaning in the course of time. In his videos, photographs, installations and interventions, Nasan Tur deals with political and social issues in a humorous way. The focus is mostly on approaching cultural differences and on reflecting the processes of social marginalization.
Rahraw Omarzad, Gaining and Losing..., 2012
Gaining and Losing.../ Ganar y perder..., 2012
Vídeo digital SD, 6’, Courtesy the artist
Centre for Contemporary Arts, Kabul, Afganistán
In his new video Gaining and Losing (2012), a short narrative in four episodes overlaps past, present, and the future. Referring to the massive destruction of archeological artifacts a the Kabul National Museum of Afghanistan during the past decade, and to the current reconstruction of Afghan cultural infrastructures, Omarzad plunges us in a troubled space time of fear and desire, disappointment and waiting, underlining the incongruous calm and suspended tension of the present condition in Afghanistan. Here physical disability symbolizes the cultural, economic, military, and political need for understanding and enablement in the face of a country full of contradictions and potentialities, as well as the West’s unlitateral and simplistic perception of it.