Seeing is believing
Works that serve to oppose media images by means of other images. Group exhibition at KW Berlin, curated by Susanne Pfeffer.
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180 Seconds of Lasting Images. 2006
Lambda print on paper, wood, Velcro
268 x 408 x 1 cm
In 2001 Khalil Joreige discovered the archive of his uncle Alfred Jr. Kettaneh, which had been untouched for over 15 years, as Kettaneh was kidnapped in 1985 during the Lebanese
civil war and declared missing. In this archive Joreige and Joana Hadjithomas found an addressed and stamped envelope where inside a film negative had been placed, with material Kettaneh must have recorded before his disappearance. When Joreige and Hadjithomas decided to have the film developed they found out that it had not survived the unrest, which included a fire in Kettaneh's building, unscathed, so that the overexposed moving images remained for the most part abstract. Yet second-long passages show the bluish shadows of human figures, Beirut's harbors, boats or rooftops among the otherwise white foggy images. (From the short guide)
© Photo: Haupt & Binder
Works that serve to oppose media images by means of other images. Group exhibition at KW Berlin, curated by Susanne Pfeffer.