SB 2011 Tour: Sharjah Art Museum
Part 1 of the photo tour through Sharjah Biennial 10: Plot for a Biennial; 16 March - 16 May 2011. Curators: Suzanne Cotter, Rasha Salti; Associate curator: Haig Aivazian. More than 100 participants.
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* 1956 Santiago de Chile.
Lament of the images. 2002
Illuminated texts, light screen
Collection Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA. Reproduced by Sharjah Art Foundation.
The work was installed in a special construction on the interior street between the two wings of the Sharjah Art Museum
After reading the texts on the wall, visitors go through a dark corridor and are blinded in the next room by glistening bright light.
Lament of the Images
is a philosophical essay
on representation
Lament of the Images
is a poetic meditation on what is seen and what is not
Lament of the Images
is an attempt to make visible the invisible
Lament of the Images
is a search for light in the darkness
Lament of the Images
is a lament of the images
© From the SB10 Guidebook.
© Photos: Haupt & Binder, Universes in Universe
Part 1 of the photo tour through Sharjah Biennial 10: Plot for a Biennial; 16 March - 16 May 2011. Curators: Suzanne Cotter, Rasha Salti; Associate curator: Haig Aivazian. More than 100 participants.