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Part 4 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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The Sovereign Forest. 2012
Mixed-media installation
The Scene of Crime, 2011 – Colour HD video projection with sound (42 min); The Counting Sisters and Other Stories, 2011 – Silk-screened, handmade banana-fibre-paper book and colour video projection (8 min); The Constitution, 2012 – silk -screened, handmade ramie-and cotton-fibre-paper book and colour HD video projection (9 min); 266 varieties of indigenous, organic rice seeds; eighty photographs and four books.
Amar Kanwar’s films are complex contemporary narratives that connect intimate personal spheres to larger social and political processes, linking legends and ritual objects to new symbols and public events, mapping contexts and exploring the politics of violence, power, sexuality and justice. The Sovereign Forest attempts to reopen discussion and initiate a creative response to our understanding of crime, politics, human rights and ecology. The validity of poetry as evidence in a trial, the discourse on seeing, on understanding, on compassion, on issues of justice, as well as sovereignty and the determination of the self, all come together in a constellation of moving and still images, texts, books, pamphlets, albums, music, objects, seeds, events and processes.
© Still: Amar Kanwar
(Repro: Haupt & Binder)
© Text: SB11 Guidebook
Part 4 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.