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: Dar Al Nadwa
This and Many More? 2013
Mixed-media installation, video, sculpture, salt, sound, fibreglass, metal dust
Anawana Haloba drafts poetry in the form of sketches, which she then abstracts into performance-based works incorporating moving images, objects and sound. This and Many More? explores conflicts that occurred during periods of colonisation and resistance, and looks at how such conflicts affected approaches to development. Haloba reenacts events, such as the 1930 Salt March led by Mahatma Gandhi in India, via gestures and narratives that allow the viewer to approach history from a different vantage point, creating links between past and present conflicts. She uses specific material to simultaneously trigger recognition and underline difference. The installation unfolds over two rooms. In the first are four barrels cast from polyester, fibreglass and metal dust. Each rusty-looking barrel widens at the top to create a large flat surface that functions as a screen. Four videos are projected onto these. The second room is a brightly lit white cube gallery in which stands a heap of coarse salt, 150 kilos in weight, and around which people can sit.
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.