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: Calligraphers’ Studios
YOVO! YOVO!
Eylien König, Martina Mahlknecht, Martin Prinoth, Doris Margarete Schmidt
enframing home. 2012–13
Mixed media installation, three-channel video projection
The long-term project enframing home, YOVO! YOVO!’s first collective work, draws on theorist Timothy Mitchell’s concept of "enframing", a term used to describe how colonisers hierarchically restructure the colonised world in order to better understand and contain it. Initiated as part of the exhibition Take, Take, Take and . . . ? at the Benin Biennale in 2012, the project takes place in different countries on multiple continents, in a variation on the children’s game Chinese Whispers (also known as Telephone). The starting point of the project is Germany. Five people were asked to describe a set of model homes, an actual place that also represents an idealised way of living. Their descriptions were translated into French and given to sign painters in Benin, who created images of the houses based on their interpretation of the descriptions, filling in the gaps with their imaginations. For Sharjah Biennial 11, five people in Benin were asked to describe the sign-painters’ works. These texts were then translated into English and sent to Sharjah, where graphic designers sought to turn these descriptions anew into actual depictions of homes.
Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation.
© 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.