SB13 in Sharjah
10. März - 12. Juni 2017. Kuratorin: Christine Tohmé. Ausstellung, Programme, Projekte in Sharjah mit Arbeiten von 73 Teilnehmern.
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Envelope, 2017
Hülle eines Heißluftballons
Ort: Al Hamdan Bin Mousa Courtyard, Kunsträume am Al Mureijah Square
In previous works, Abbas Akhavan has examined the domestication of nature, reflected in gardens and parks, as an extension of a settler colonial logic of progress manifest through expansion of the built environment. For SB13, he draws our attention upward—the direction most associated with futurity—in three interrelated works that explore gestures of aerial projection and perspective.
In conjunction with his other work Variations on a Garden (2017, presented in Bait Al Serkal), Akhavan explores the poetic and political dimensions of an aerial vantage point in two works. Presented in Al Hamdan Bin Mousa Courtyard, Envelope is a decommissioned hot air balloon that is occasionally inflated with buoyant air. The work takes its name from the impermeable nylon-polyester panels used for the balloon. Capable of rising over 20,000 metres high, the balloon is seen here in a recurring process of rise and fall, suggesting a long historical view of civilisation as well as the cycle of breath.
Kids, Cats and 1 Dog (2016) ist ein Text auf dem Dach der Galerie - siehe Seite 3
(Aus dem SB13 Guide Book)
Siehe auch sein Werk im
Bait Al Serkal
* 1977 Teheran, Iran. Lebt in Toronto, Kanada.
© Foto: Haupt & Binder
10. März - 12. Juni 2017. Kuratorin: Christine Tohmé. Ausstellung, Programme, Projekte in Sharjah mit Arbeiten von 73 Teilnehmern.