Look again
dal 23/4/2009 al 20/6/2009
Segnalato da
23/4/2009
Look again
Tabakalera Centro Internacional de Cultura Contemporanea, San Sebastian
For two months, eleven video installations by five international artists will be screened in the working areas of the old tobacco factory as part of an exhibition curated by Carolina Grau. The show features video works which will make us look again at our environment, daily routines, private and public spaces, cities, panoramic vistas, landscapes and history. Participating artists: Filipa Cesar, Marine Hugonnier, Rosalind Nashashibi, Anri Sala and Rui Toscazo.
Curated by Carolina Grau
A new exhibition will be opening in Tabakalera on 24 April, entitled Look Again. For two months, eleven video installations by five international artists will be screened in the working areas of the old tobacco factory as part of an exhibition curated by Carolina Grau.
The exhibition, which includes work by Filipa César, Marine Hugonnier, Rosalind Nashashibi, Anri Sala and Rui Toscano, will centre on pieces intended to make us take a second look at our everyday surroundings, the private and public spaces we live in, our cities, panoramic views and landscapes, and also at our history. Through different ways of looking at the world, and with works filmed in such diverse places as Afghanistan, Albania, Brazil, Germany, Portugal, Palestine and the US, Look Again invites the audience to reflect on what we see and the way we see it.
The videos by Rui Toscano could almost be seen as paintings or photographs of urban landscapes in Brazil; however, these apparently static images are in fact full of constant activity and movement.
Filipa César records our routines and day-to-day behaviour at work and in public spaces, editing and transforming them in order to create new meanings and perceptions.
By observing mundane details, tranquil moments and rituals of everyday life, Rosalind Nashashibi provides an insight into the lives of others and reveals narratives of a disconnected world. And this is also what Anri Sala does, with his apparently timeless and remote, intimate yet distant works, which reflect the loneliness of the struggle to be human in today’s world.
Marine Hugonnier, on the other hand, explores the politics of landscape and its representation, from Afghanistan to the Brazilian Amazon, questioning our perception of these places and their imagery, as well as the meaning they hold for us.
Special visits
“We create and shoot our own viewpoints with a tracking shot”
A shooting workshop will be held within the framework of the exposition. Using a dolly, participants will be given the opportunity of filming their own viewpoint, based on what they observe in the view of the artists in the proposals presented. A workshop, a “look again” and the artists’ “look agains”.
Furthermore, a series of special visits will be conducted by some of the artists and audiovisual creators participating in the exhibition. A unique opportunity to see the exhibition from the artists’ own perspective and experience.
Image: Marine Hugonnier, Travelling Amazonia, 2006
Press info
Rosa Zufía tel 943011311 e-mail komunikazioa@tabakalera.eu
Opening of the exhibition April 24th, at 8pm.
Tabakalera
Duque de Mandas 52, 20012 Donostia-San Sebastián
Tuesday to Friday: 17:00 – 20:00
Saturdays and Sundays: 11:00 – 14:00 / 17:00 – 20:00
Entrance free