Algerian Artists Write the Video Body
Developing the ethical issues that are inherent to the creation of spaces and to attracting audiences for video art’s integration in Algeria.
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Rachida Azdaou’s Trio déprimé [Depressed trio] (2009, 2 min) presents the superimposition of two bodies belonging to one individual. The video indicates a doubling of the personality that provides information about a psychological state. This individual contemplates a wall, then he tries to go over it. The soundtrack is cadenced with his worn out breathing. The echo in the empty room amplifies the sound. We perceive it as a cry of exhaustion: an enclosed individuality in his (private) space. He tries multiple times to confront the wall, an insurmountable obstacle that he continually tries to get past, but in vain. Melancholy settles in when he crushes himself. The sound offers a spatial projection of the melancholic body and struggles through the video image that materializes it.
© Still: Rachida Azdaou
Developing the ethical issues that are inherent to the creation of spaces and to attracting audiences for video art’s integration in Algeria.