Exercises on looking
TWO-CHANNEL VIDEO PROJECTION
Community and Critique 2022 | MiZA, Abu Dhabi
Excerpts from 5min dual-channel video
There’s an essay by Michael Chabon on Wes Anderson’s work, that I’ve always been fascinated
by. In it, he laments how “the world is so big, so
complicated, so replete with marvels and surprises that it takes years for most
people to begin to notice that is, also, irretrievably broken. We call this
period of research, childhood.”
Chabon wrote about childhood as a site of
investigation–a phase that inflicts the first pang of heartbreak yet also
manages to hold tender moments of the world unbroken. For him, these scenes are
worth looking at. They must be inspected so one can learn its hard
lessons and find moments that seek to redeem them.
In my final project as an artist fellow at the Salama bint Hamdan Emerging Artist Fellowship (SEAF), I created an experimental film that reflects memory’s fragmented nature. Exhibited as a sculptural installation, it draws heavily from collage techniques using personal super 8 footage to depict
how we alter moments from the past each time we revisit them.
There’s an essay by Michael Chabon on Wes Anderson’s work, that I’ve always been fascinated
by. In it, he laments how “the world is so big, so
complicated, so replete with marvels and surprises that it takes years for most
people to begin to notice that is, also, irretrievably broken. We call this
period of research, childhood.”
Chabon wrote about childhood as a site of
investigation–a phase that inflicts the first pang of heartbreak yet also
manages to hold tender moments of the world unbroken. For him, these scenes are
worth looking at. They must be inspected so one can learn its hard
lessons and find moments that seek to redeem them.
In my final project as an artist fellow at the Salama bint Hamdan Emerging Artist Fellowship (SEAF), I created an experimental film that reflects memory’s fragmented nature. Exhibited as a sculptural installation, it draws heavily from collage techniques using personal super 8 footage to depict
how we alter moments from the past each time we revisit them.
By weaving textures of everyday life–what I hope to offer is an affirmation of memory’s healing potential. What we decide to lose and keep over time, and
what they can teach us about being alive now.
By weaving textures of everyday life–what I hope to offer is an affirmation of memory’s healing potential. What we decide to lose and keep over time, and what they can teach us about being alive now.
