The Flying Saucer: Hassan Khan

Antiguo restaurant de los 1970s, popularmente llamado "El platillo volante" por su diseño futurístico. En la esquina de Sheikh Zahed St / Al Wahda St / Sheikh Humaid Bin Saqr Al Qasimi St., a una distancia de aproximadamente 4 km de los SAF Art Spaces en el barrio de Al Mureijah.

Hassan Khan:
Varias obras y una intervención. 2014–15
Por encargo de Sharjah Art Foundation

Video: Hassan Khan sobre su obra

Occupying what is commonly known as The Flying Saucer, an eccentric building from the 1970s with a storied past (grocery store, fast-food restaurant) and whose status is now in flux, Hassan Khan examines everyday desires for happiness and the cold banality of the construct of capitalism.

Made in collaboration with Andeel, one of Egypt’s most well-known cartoonists, two billboards punctuate the passerby’s changing perspective and touch on Khan’s fascination with humour as a form of social critique. By introducing colour as a mediator between the internal and external experience of the building as monument, the artist explores the possibility of bridging the street and the structure. Drawing on the architecture of this semidemolished site and underscoring its obsolescence, Khan presents a glass sculpture that combines the sleek and minimal form of a column with a rough, maladroit shape, as well as a new video that echoes the structure of Egyptian comedy. Together the various elements of his works force us to consider the aspirational forms we produce and our intrinsically irregular nature.

© Texto: SB12 Guidebook
© Fotos, video: Haupt & Binder, Universes in Universe