Mounira Al Sol: The Sea is a Stereo. 03 December at 22:00 - Saturday, 22 January 2011 at 19:00 Kunsthalle Lissabon Rua Rosa Araújo 7-9 Lisbon, Portugal
Kunsthalle Lissabon is proud to present, for the first time in Portugal, the work of Lebanese artist Mounira Al Solh. Al Solh's work utilizes an ironic and fictional strategy as well as a self-reflexive position to investigate everyday reality, thus questioning what is perceived as normal by others. The project The Sea is a Stereo introduces us to a group of men who live in Beirut and who swim in the sea everyday regardless of th...e circumstances: rain, wind or war. Their obsessive swimming behavior appears as an act of resistance against the impossibility of leading a “normal” everyday life in their own country. This struggle for normality takes a sudden twist when the artist quite literally speaks for the men, dubbing their own voices. Al Solh uses her own voice not only to expose the vulnerability of their behavior but also as a way of exposing the fiction of “normality”. http://www.mouniraalsolh.com/ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
