A video installation curated by Nicole Sarmiento
Participating artists Jasmina Metwaly, Philip Rizk (Mosireen Collective), Justin Davy, Jonathan Wang, Aryan Kaganof, Dylan Valley
In this exhibition we use the visual and aural in order to explore shreds, fragments, dissonances and imaginaries, rather than overarching narratives. Using the work of interdisciplinary video and performance artists who straddle the realms of the digital, visual, aural and performative, the series of works touch on the ongoing uprisings across what has been called ‘North Africa’.
The works grapple with and through the meanings of ‘tahrir’ (freedom), through the series of events that began in Tunisia and have spread across Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Syria and beyond. The works also bring to bear local experiences of resistance to structural violence, and raise questions about the imaginaries these uprising draw on, work through and engender. Imbricated in this series of shorts is how deeply our lived realities and ways of seeing are shaped by the digital and the visual, in a time of increased visibility of social movements.