Future Movements
About the exhibition on Jerusalem, included in the CityStates' focus of this year’s Liverpool Biennale.
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Elegy to Mamilla. 2009
HD single channel video
18:25 min
Sarah Beddington’s Elegy to Mamilla (2009) shares similar concerns with Handal’s Vanishing Point I, but the formal strategies employed by both artists are radically different. The video captures the uncertain present of Ma’man Allah, a Muslim cemetery located in what has become, after 1948, Israeli territory. In contrast with Hasager’s or Handals’ docu-fictional approach, Elegy to Mamilla is strictly anchored within the documentary genre. It was produced on the occasion of Beddington’s residency in Jerusalem, and the conditions of its production unavoidably bring up the question of the unique status of the artist (and more so the visiting artist) operating under exceptional political or social conditions…
© Still: Sarah Beddington
About the exhibition on Jerusalem, included in the CityStates' focus of this year’s Liverpool Biennale.