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Selected Bulletin: Thursday, November 20th, 2014
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
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Please scroll down for English version PRESSEMITTEILUNG Berlin, 20. November 2014 Mounira Al Solh NOW EAT MY SCRIPT Videoinstallation 7.12.14–15.2.15 Eröffnung: Samstag, 6.12.14, 17–19 h Ort: KW Projects In der Videoarbeit NOW EAT MY SCRIPT (2014) setzt sich die Künstlerin Mounira Al Solh mit dem Moment auseinander, an dem Fragmente von Geschichte und Biografie aufeinandertreffen. Anhand der Reise eines geopferten Lammes im Kofferraum ihrer Tante zwischen Syrien und dem Libanon verwischt Mounira Al Solh die Grenzen von Vergangenheit und Gegenwart, Wirklichkeit und Fiktion. Sie verwebt Geschichten ihrer eigenen Familie, die Beirut während des Bürgerkrieges 1989 verlassen musste, um nach Damaskus zu gehen, mit denen syrischer Flüchtlinge, die heute in ihrer Nachbarschaft Schutz suchen. Die Arbeit lädt ein, über die Darstellung von Gewalt sowie über das Dilemma für eine Künstlerin oder einen Künstler, ein Trauma in Realzeit zu erfassen, nachzudenken. Al Solhs Blick auf den Gebrauch von Sprache ist dabei eine ausgewiesene Methode, um das Phänomen des Übergangs zu untersuchen. Durch die Verwendung von Alltagssprache in dieser Arbeit verringert sie die Distanz zum Trauma der „Anderen“. Die Künstlerin spielt auf Gewalt an, ohne sie direkt zu benennen, ebenso wie jene Familien, die „versuchen, ihren bürgerlichen Status zu bewahren, indem sie sich selbst nicht als Flüchtlinge bezeichnen“ (Zitat aus NOW EAT MY SCRIPT). 1978 in Beirut geboren, pendelt Mounira Al Solh heute zwischen ihrer libanesischen Heimatstadt und Amsterdam. Vergangene Ausstellungen umfassen unter anderem ALL MOTHER TONGUES ARE DIFFICULT, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, LB, 2014; MOUNIRA AL SOLH AND SARAH FORREST, TWO SOLO SHOWS, CCA Glasgow, UK, 2013; HOME WORKS VI, Beirut, LB, 2013; THE UNGOVERNABLES, The New Museum Triennial, New York, US, 2012; MOUNIRA AL SOLH & BASSAM RAMLAWI AND DRAWINGS BY RENÉ DANIELS, Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam, NL, 2011; I DECIDED NOT TO SAVE THE WORLD, Tate Modern, London, GB und Salt, Istanbul, TR, 2011; THE FUTURE OF TRADITION – THE TRADITION OF FUTURE, Haus der Kunst, München, DE, 2010; Manifesta 8, The European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Region Murcia (SP) im Dialog mit Nordafrika, 2010. Mounira Al Solh wurde von Alya Sebti, freie Kuratorin, eingeladen. Das Programm der KW Institute for Contemporary Art wird durch die Unterstützung des Regierenden Bürgermeisters von Berlin – Senatskanzlei – Kulturelle Angelegenheiten ermöglicht. Öffnungszeiten Mi–Mo 12–19 h, Do 12–21 h, Di geschlossen Eintritt Eintritt frei Pressekontakt Henriette Sölter T +49 30 243459 42 presse@kw-berlin.de KW Institute for Contemporary Art Auguststr. 69 10117 Berlin www.kw-berlin.de www.facebook.com/KWInstituteforContemporaryArt www.facebook.com/KWFreunde —– PRESS RELEASE Berlin, November 20, 2014 Mounira Al Solh NOW EAT MY SCRIPT Video installation 7.12.14–15.2.15 Opening: Saturday, 6.12.14, 17–19 h Venue: KW Projects In her video NOW EAT MY SCRIPT (2014) the artist Mounira Al Solh engages with the moment where fragments of history and biography meet. Through the journey of a sacrificed lamb in her aunt’s car trunk, traveling between Syria and Lebanon, Mounira Al Solh is mixing past and present, reality and fiction. She is interweaving the stories of her own family, who had to leave Beirut going to Damascus during the civil war in 1989, and those of the Syrian refugees who are seeking shelter in her neighborhood today. The work is an invitation to reflect on the representation of violence and the dilemma for an artist to register the trauma in real time. Al Solh’s look at the use of language is a dedicated method to explore the phenomenon of transition. By using everyday language in this work, she removes the distance to the otherness’s trauma. The artist alludes to the violence without naming it, like the families, who are “trying to preserve their bourgeois status by not calling themselves refugees” (quoted from NOW EAT MY SCRIPT). Born in 1978 in Beirut, Mounira Al Solh lives between her Lebanese hometown and Amsterdam. Recent exhibitions include ALL MOTHER TONGUES ARE DIFFICULT, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, LB, 2014; MOUNIRA AL SOLH AND SARAH FORREST, TWO SOLO SHOWS, CCA Glasgow, UK, 2013; HOME WORKS VI, Beirut, LB, 2013; THE UNGOVERNABLES, The New Museum Triennial, New York, US, 2012; MOUNIRA AL SOLH & BASSAM RAMLAWI AND DRAWINGS BY RENÉ DANIELS, Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam, NL, 2011; I DECIDED NOT TO SAVE THE WORLD, Tate Modern, London, GB and Salt, Istanbul, TR, 2011; THE FUTURE OF TRADITION – THE TRADITION OF FUTURE, Haus der Kunst, Munich, DE, 2010; Manifesta 8, The European Biennial of Contemporary Art, region of Murcia (SP) in dialogue with Northern Africa, 2010, among others. Mounira Al Solh is invited by Alya Sebti, independent curator. The cultural programs of KW Institute for Contemporary Art are made possible with the support of the Governing Mayor of Berlin – Senate Chancellery – Cultural Affairs. Opening hours Wed–Mon 12–19 h, Thu 12–21 h, Tue closed Admission Admission free Press contact Henriette Sölter T +49 30 243459 42 press@kw-berlin.de KW Institute for Contemporary Art Auguststr. 69 10117 Berlin www.kw-berlin.de www.facebook.com/KWInstituteforContemporaryArt www.facebook.com/KWFreunde |
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