Calligraphy Square & surroundings
Part 3 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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Venue: Sharjah Calligraphy Museum
Dilbar. 2013
Black-and-white HD video projection with sound, looped
Dilbar is the portrait of a city builder, one of a million Bangladeshi workers currently living in the UAE. The title character, whose name means "full of heart", is a construction worker on the new art spaces of the Sharjah Art Foundation. The film presents the physical and spiritual transmigration of this voiceless soul as he is driven by the warm winter into a "sleeping" existence that moves between the museum and the labour camp. This comatose journey slowly turns into a symphony of dreams and hallucinations, as his senses are possessed by the unseen water in the desert and he becomes part of a source that feeds the trees, birds, machines and buildings. The film transports this "sleeper" across the boundaries of economic and social status, of meaning, and of life and death.
Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation.
One of the seven Sharjah Biennial 11 Prizes.
© Photo: Haupt & Binder
© Text: SB11 Guidebook
Part 3 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.