Artists in Dialog: Al Fadhil & Aissa Deebi Opening: Thursday 28 April, 2011, 8PM
The exhibition runs: 29 April – 26 June 2011 Fri - Sun 2-6Pm and by appointment Location: Art Laboratory Berlin, Prinzenallee 34 Art Laboratory Berlin is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition project Artists in Dialog: My Dreams Have Destroyed My Life. Some Thoughts on Pain on 28 April. The exhibition, the third in our ongoing series Artists in Dialog, is a discoursive dialog between the Iraqi Swiss artist Al Fadhil and the Palestinian-American artist Aissa Deebi, and explores the complex ties between the personal and the political in the theme of loss. My Dreams Have Destroyed My Life. Some Thoughts on Pain was first conceived 2005 by the artists during a common artist residency in Taiwan. Both artists had lost brothers in respective conflicts in their countries of origin. Al Fadhil has lost two brothers to the wars in Iraq. Aissa Deebi’s younger brother Nasim died in Israeli police custody in 1999. The medical report labeled the death a suicide, something the artist and his family dispute. The exhibition focuses on both the artists’ personal experience of loss and the cultural aspects of mourning and grief: Fadhil comes from a Shiite Iraqi family, whilst Deebi is Greek Orthodox. By means of photography, video and installation the exhibition will explore the three deaths and their political and historical context. Al Fadhil is an artist working in multimedia and performance, he is based in Lugano and Berlin. Aissa Deebi is a new media artist and currently director of visual arts at he American University in Cairo. more information at: http://artlaboratory-berlin.org/html/eng-press-current.htm Prinzenallee 34 13359 Berlin http://www.artlaboratory-berlin.org _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
