SB15 tour: Old Al Dhaid Clinic
Photos and information of artworks at the Old Al Dhaid Clinic. SB15, 7 February - 11 June 2023. Curator: Hoor Al Qasimi, based on a concept by Okwui Enwezor.
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Remain. 2018
2-channel digital video, colour and sound
24 minutes
At the intersection of conceptual, staged and documentary imagemaking, Hoda Afshar’s lensbased artistic practice explores the representation of gender, marginality and displacement. Remain (2018), a two-channel video installation, revolves around an offshore immigration detention centre operated by Australian border control on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea, where asylum seekers are left to languish in a stateless limbo as they await legal status. Following a group of refugees who remained on the island after the closure of the detention facility in 2017, the film juxtaposes their stories of loss, violence and abuse with the lushness of the island’s lowland tropical rainforest landscape.
(Text at the exhibition. © Sharjah Art Foundation)
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© Stills: Hoda Afshar
Repro: Haupt & Binder, Universes in Universe
Photos and information of artworks at the Old Al Dhaid Clinic. SB15, 7 February - 11 June 2023. Curator: Hoor Al Qasimi, based on a concept by Okwui Enwezor.