Two exhibitions
dal 25/11/2005 al 6/1/2006
Segnalato da
25/11/2005
Two exhibitions
Ellen de Bruijne, Amsterdam
Nesrine Khodr's work addresses topics such as the urban space and how its inhabitants interact with it as well as issues such as borders, mobility and territoriality. Cleo Campert has worked many years making photographic reports of daily, urban life and journalistic issues. Jeremiah Day presents two works: a series of photographs, and a performance.
Two exhibitions
Tracks
Nesrine Khodr (b.1973, lives and works in Beirut, Lebanon)
Cleo Campert (b.1963, lives and works in Amsterdam)
Ellen de Bruijne is proud to present two artists whose work both in different ways
concern narrating and documenting. Tracks leading to different places.
The work of filmmaker Nesrine Khodr often takes the form of essay or documentary
essay. It addresses topics such as the urban space and how its inhabitants interact
with it as well as issues such as borders, mobility and territoriality. Some of her
work also attempts to capture ephemeral moments through films that much resemble
haikus in their approach.
At Ellen de Bruijne Projects she will present two works. 'Enclosures' has been
produced in 2004 when she was in Holland at the Rijksakademie. Enclosures deals with
concepts of home and exile, as well as the feeling of being foreign and the
"Fortress Europe". It is a film about a journey, a reflection on borders and what it
means to live illegally in a country. The second piece is filmed in Belo Horizonte,
Brazil, in 2005. It traces a movement between one point in the city to another just
before nightfall. Not much of the street is directly revealed through this drive
that feels more like a trip than a mere short crossing from one place to the other.
The intricate soundscape transports us through different territories as we try to
capture the contours of the street and construct an image of it.
As a self-made photographer Cleo Campert has worked many years making photographic
reports of daily, urban life and journalistic issues. For the former nightclub Roxy
she was the house photographer. In her photographs she was able to get to the heart
of nightlife. After searching the darkness of the clubbing scene she got out to
broaden her horizon by travelling the world. While touring through countries as
diverse as Cuba, Gambia and Belgium she discovered a common place. In Ellen de
Bruijne Projects she will show her personal documents of people waiting, standing
still, or frozen in a scene. Capturing these moments the apathy becomes visible,
almost tangible and seemingly suffering, their motionless figures are nearly
swallowed by the ominous darkness around them.
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Jeremiah Day
For Us The Living/Period of Reflection
Jeremiah Day's work is marked by a persistent attempt to link ephemeral moments of
revelation to a consciousness of political possibility. In his exhibition Day
presents two works: a series of photographs, and a performance. Both evolved from a
long meditation on the above quote by US political writer and township democracy
activist HR Shapiro.
By pairing two seemingly opposed figures like Guy Debord and Abraham Lincoln,
Shapiro's
one-liner is paradoxical and perplexing. For Day the `answer' Shapiro refers to
seems to be found within one rhetorical turn of Lincoln's famous oration over the
fallen of the US Civil War: "we cannot dedicate. rather it is for us the living to
be dedicated."
`For Us The Living' is a series of photographs that emerged from a meditation upon
these texts (some shot years ago, some shot only a few weeks ago).
Day will also perform a collaborative work with the band We Vs. Death that can be
attended at the Bellamystraat 53 on Monday, the 21st at 7pm. This work is an
epitaph to the American journalist Gary Webb who died in December, 2004.
The second part of the title of the exhibition, "Period of Reflection", refers to
the official `period of reflection' declared by Jose Borroso after the French and
Dutch `No' votes on the European Constitution this past summer. Day has asked the
European Union Ministry of Culture for formal recognition that this exhibition does
in fact constitute an object for reflection in a `period of reflection' on the
European political project.
Negotiations are ongoing.
Opening Saturday 26 November, 17.00 - 19.00
Ellen de Bruijne Projects
Rozengracht 207 A - Amsterdam
Opening hours: Tuesday-Saturday 13-18, 1st Sunday of the month 14-17. Gallery closed 25 December- 2 January 2006