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dal 16/4/2004 al 29/5/2004
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Sparwasser HQ, Berlin
Paul Eachus - Nooshin Farhid. The hypnotic rotation of a fan, accompanied by a red light flashing obsessively on and off, a table full of food hovers at the point of collapse, whilst TV monitors grapple with the breakdown of information. A man and his dog sit passively whilst all around are signs of impending disaster; a series of false starts lead to failed artworks lying around a discarded studio; the vibrant sounds of break dancing music gives way to the banality of a hair salon. These are all incidents in the works of Nooshin Farhid and Paul Eachus, they both reflect upon the impossibility of communication, the awkwardness of things that disrupt the logic of continuity.
Paul Eachus - Nooshin Farhid
A collaboration between
Shaheen Merali, Haus der Kulturen der Welt
and Sparwasser HQ
The hypnotic rotation of a fan, accompanied by a red light flashing obsessively on and off, a table full of food hovers at the point of collapse, whilst TV monitors grapple with the breakdown of information. A man and his dog sit passively whilst all around are signs of impending disaster; a series of false starts lead to failed artworks lying around a discarded studio; the vibrant sounds of break dancing music gives way to the banality of a hair salon.
These are all incidents in the works of Nooshin Farhid and Paul Eachus, they both reflect upon the impossibility of communication, the awkwardness of things that disrupt the logic of continuity.
Nooshin Farhid's videos focus upon different narrative situations and visual scenarios. Her subject matter often begins with the ordinary and the mundane which she acutely observes extracting the interplay between lucidity and reason, obsession and madness. Structurally these videos often appear fragmented and disjointed, the smooth flow of narrative storytelling is only used as a hook’ to convince the viewer that they have a controlling hold on what is happening. Having achieved this Farhid, metaphorically, pulls the rug from under their feet. The continuity of the narrative becomes a false strategy as other narratives are glimpsed or obliquely referred to. There is an engagement with time, time which is held back, slowed down, its familiar linearity disrupted, space and time are simultaneously suspended and deferred. Out of the unimportant and the unremarkable come extreme psychological moments.
In Paul Eachus's photoworks there is an overwhelming sense of an absence of a centre, a place to start from which would allow us into the fictive space of the work. There are many centres vying for our attention, many starting points that imply multiple beginnings, middles and ends, all existing in one work at different moments of their individual unfolding. These accumulations and collections of things from different unrelated sources, often objects that have been discarded and abandoned, become the subject of obsessive processes of categorising, ordering and controlling. This activity in itself veers out of control and the viewer is confronted with a series of failed attempts, collapsed systems and an overpowering experience of dis-order. There is a fragility in the way that things come together and hover between stability and disintegration. The photoworks have the look of glossy magazine reproductions, their intense colour reminiscent of contemporary furniture catalogues exerting power, but only adding to the fallacy of the attempt to control.
supported by The London Institute
Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Image: a work by Paul Eachus
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Artists talk: Sunday April 18. at 6pm
May 5 IMAGINARY IS POTENTIAL a film- and video screening of maily LA-based artists in Z-bar, Bergstr.2, Berlin Mitte
May 8 Artists talk with the Azorro Group (Krakow/Warsaw)
June 5 - July 3 Dave Beech
July The International Necronautical Society (INS)
August Annika Lundgren, Andrea Creutz, Lise Skou.
September Curating Degree Zero
October Danger Museum
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