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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Proposal for an Iraq War Memorial. 2007
Video
Color, sound
5' 24"
In her video work Iman Issa has compiled pictures of Iraq that circulate in the media and have sunk into our memory. The film is not just a collage of different genres - from war reporting to the famous fairytale film The Thief of Baghdad - but also combines different video formats. Heterogeneous images collide without merging into a homogenous whole, and the woman's voiceover reflects her position towards the images. (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.