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Teil 9 der Fototour durch die Sharjah Biennale 11: Re:emerge. Towards a New Cultural Cartography, 13. März - 13. Mai 2013. Kuratorin: Yuko Hasegawa. Mehr als 100 Beteiligte.
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The Situation is Fluid. 2011
Mixed-Media Installation, Zeichen, Fotografien und Buch
Ayman Ramadan’s practice emerges from and responds to street culture and practices of everyday life in Egypt. The Situation is Fluid takes its name from a statement made by the White House regarding the situation in Egypt shortly after the start of the January 25th Revolution. Ramadan created a sign featuring the phrase, which he then photographed in different locations around Cairo. He reproduced and distributed the sign to friends abroad, asking them to send back photographs of it taken in locations of their choosing. While in its basic aesthetic form the simple street sign is recognisable almost anywhere in the world and is easily seen as representing an official truth, in many of these photographs it is effectively meaningless, like many of the words put forward by political authorities every day. Ramadan compiled the photographs into a publication which, like the sign, is easy to reproduce and circulate.
© Foto: Haupt & Binder
© Text: SB11 Guidebook
Teil 9 der Fototour durch die Sharjah Biennale 11: Re:emerge. Towards a New Cultural Cartography, 13. März - 13. Mai 2013. Kuratorin: Yuko Hasegawa. Mehr als 100 Beteiligte.