Bait Al Serkal
Part 9 of the photo tour of Sharjah Biennial 11: Re:emerge. Towards a New Cultural Cartography, 13 March - 13 May 2013. Curator: Yuko Hasegawa. More than 100 participants.
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13 Essential Rules for Understanding the World. 2011
Video projection, Super 8 film transferred to HD (5 min 16 sec)
In 13 Essential Rules for Understanding the World, a list of numbered guidelines seem to be narrated by tulips with faces drawn on their petals. The bleak, futile and mostly defeatist scenario outlined by the rules is interrupted by scenes depicting acts of transition and repetition. Along with the subtle and dark humour, such interruptions are key to the narrative, and act in synchrony with Magdy’s works on paper presented in the Biennial.
© Photo: Haupt & Binder
© Text: SB11 Guidebook
Part 9 of the photo tour of Sharjah Biennial 11: Re:emerge. Towards a New Cultural Cartography, 13 March - 13 May 2013. Curator: Yuko Hasegawa. More than 100 participants.