Al Mureijah Art Spaces 2
Teil 2 der Fototour durch die Sharjah Biennale 12, 5. März - 5. Juni 2015. Kuratorin: Eungie Joo; Assoziierter Kurator: Ryan Inouye. 51 Beteiligte.
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Ort: Bait Gholoum Ibrahim
AT THE RISK OF THE REAL. 2015
Holzbalken, Siebe, Sand, Schippen und regelmäßige Aktivierung
22,5 x 17,7 x 3,2 m
Entstanden im Auftrag der Sharjah Art Foundation
This work expands on Cinthia Marcelle’s engagement with labour, industrial production and the reciprocity between art and daily life. As a proposal, the artist asks workers to perform routine tasks according to a specific choreography and set of conditions, imbuing those actions with newfound meaning, value and narrative.
During her visit to Sharjah, Marcelle was struck by the number of construction sites across the city. Among these was a site in the old, abandoned fishing village of Al Khan, where she saw piles of sand excavated for new development and workers manning wooden sieves to ready other piles for plaster construction. Spanning the interior footprint of an old house in Sharjah’s heritage area, AT THE RISK OF THE REAL is centred around a three-metre-high post-and-beam structure crowned with a system of sieves. As orchestrated by the artist, the sieves are activated sporadically by technicians unleashing a veil of dust reminiscent of sand’s separation from wind and the elements in the desert while obstructing the field of vision at ground level below.
© Foto: Haupt & Binder
© Text: SB12 Guidebook
Teil 2 der Fototour durch die Sharjah Biennale 12, 5. März - 5. Juni 2015. Kuratorin: Eungie Joo; Assoziierter Kurator: Ryan Inouye. 51 Beteiligte.