SB13 in Sharjah
10 March - 12 June 2017. Curator: Christine Tohmé. Exhibitions, programmes, projects in Sharjah by 73 participants.
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Rhino/Bear, 2016
From ‘L’Avalée des avalés’ [The Swallower Swallowed]
CNC routed high density foam, acrylic paint
230 x 103 x 62 cm
Venue: Al Hamriyah Studios
Artist and filmmaker Jon Rafman explores the paradoxes of modernity. Simultaneously a celebration and a critique of present-day experience, his work highlights how our technical instruments and other forms of mediation can estrange us from ourselves. At SB13, Rafman presents three sculptures from The Swallower Swallowed series (2016), alongside the video installation of Erysichthon (2015).
His sculptures Dog/Lion, Ram/Sea Lion and Rhino/Bear (2016) depict animals frozen in the middle of an unlikely meal, halfway through swallowing another much larger animal whole. The swallower and the swallowed have no connection in the food chain; their interaction here is both a violent and erotic gesture of consumption—an analogy for our contemporary condition, in which our virtual lives impinge on our physical states of being.
(From the SB13 Guidebook)
See also his works at
Bait Al Serkal
* 1981 Montreal, Canada; lives there.
© Photo: Haupt & Binder
10 March - 12 June 2017. Curator: Christine Tohmé. Exhibitions, programmes, projects in Sharjah by 73 participants.