Seeing is believing
Works that serve to oppose media images by means of other images. Group exhibition at KW Berlin, curated by Susanne Pfeffer.
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Twenty-Eight Nights and a Poem. 2010
28 photographs in wooden cabinet, each 40 x 49 cm, C-prints, Super 8 video (loop), video projections and LCD screen
Various dimensions and durations
Akram Zaatari's installation documents the work of the Lebanese portrait photographer Hashem el Madani. In the early 1950s Madani opened his "Shehrazade" studio in the city of Saida in southern Lebanon, where Zaatari was born. With the title Twenty-Eight Nights and a Poem Zaatari presents a collection of objects, visual media and devices of the photographic practices used in the studio. This includes images of Madanis equipment, private video documents and a cabinet that contains a set of his photographs. A super-8-projector screens a film, which shows the photographer at work and was shot with the expired stoek that Zaatari found in the studio. (From the short guide)
© Photo: Haupt & Binder
Works that serve to oppose media images by means of other images. Group exhibition at KW Berlin, curated by Susanne Pfeffer.