Shahryar Nashat
dal 5/4/2002 al 2/6/2002
Segnalato da
5/4/2002
Shahryar Nashat
M&M Gallery, Bornem
All the way back, the reconstruction. The installation is composed of a silent wide screen video projection showing the image of a bed. It is a loop morphing from one point of view to another whilst the walls appear to remain stationary. Alongside this disquieting and almost still image, a TV monitor shows a man behind the closed doors of a bedroom. The artificial light and functionality of the furniture are reminiscent of a reconstructed room rather than a real bedroom.
M&M Gallery presents the video installation
'All the way back, the reconstruction' of Shahryar Nashat
With this installation Shahryar Nashat (CH/°1975) received in Switzerland the namics.kunst.preis', the 'Prix Fédéral des Beaux-Arts' and le Prix du Kiefer Hablitzel Foundation.
All the way back, the reconstruction, 2001, 4'
The installation is composed of a silent wide screen video projection showing the image of a bed. It is a loop morphing from one point of view to another whilst the walls appear to remain stationary. Alongside this disquieting and almost still image, a TV monitor shows a man behind the closed doors of a bedroom. The artificial light and functionality of the furniture are reminiscent of a reconstructed room rather than a real bedroom.
"A man running out of a room leaving a man lying on a bed." The narrative of the piece remains solely based on these two facts, resisting closure and in turn creating a confusing and bizarre atmosphere. A voice whispers the text to the protagonist who repeats it. The whispers fade in and out. They slowly start having another narration, alienating themselves.
"What just happened has no importance" keeps on being repeated by the narrator, to the extent that the consequence becomes more important than the cause. Irrelevant of the past event.
Shahryar Nashat
The video installations of Shahryar Nashat always concentrate on moments of rupture and possess a particular suggestive character. The composition of the images and the sound is based upon the principles of the postponement and the contraposition.
Nashat tries to enhance human behaviour in critical situations; when alienating experiences do surface again, when self-protection does not function anymore. On this tangential point, there are some ambiguous events happening that are related to one's memory, one's experience and that are essential in the understanding of human functioning. A slice of consciousness.
1260"Voice with its register of sound and image take a prominent place in the emerging work of Shahryar Nashat. Images and their rhythms, sound and voices are condensed to a rhizome of significations that displays even the finest emotional shock together with clinical analyses."
M&M Gallery, St Amandsesteenweg 181, B- 2880 Bornem, Belgium
openinghours gallery : twed -> sun : 2pm -> 7pm