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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Chinese Ink, 2017
Single-channel video
55 min
Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation
Venue: Al Hamriyah Studios
In many of Ghassan Salhab’s films, ‘travel’ serves as a foil for other kinds of ‘transport’ that circumnavigate intention, orientation and linear temporality.
In his SB13 commission Chinese Ink (2017), composed from a series of shots taken with an iPhone, the film director expands on these concerns through questions of location and the act of filmmaking itself. Some images were captured in the moment ‘without quite knowing why’, and others were filmed at an earlier time ‘with no apparent motive’ or as a result of specific circumstances. Salhab jotted down notes all along, excerpts from books he read or reread, sounds he recorded and preserved. He approached this film-essay as a work in progress with no preconceived structure; instead, he let the work gradually ‘reveal’ itself, incorporating in its journey more than one resonance. All at once, in terms of ‘place’ and his relationship to ‘here’, with all its entanglements, it became clear to him that he needed to invoke the ‘elsewhere’, to start with the first place, his childhood in Senegal, and ‘retrace’ certain steps: his connection to armed struggles, the Palestinian cause, the present time…. All of these elements ‘earned’—or at least tried to earn—their place within the film as they attempted to impose their presence on him.
(From the SB13 Guidebook)
* 1958 Dakar, Senegal. Lives in Beirut, Lebanon.
© Still: Ghassan Salhab. Repro: Haupt & Binder
10. März - 12. Juni 2017. Kuratorin: Christine Tohmé. Ausstellung, Programme, Projekte in Sharjah mit Arbeiten von 73 Teilnehmern.