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Ana Gallardo, Don Raúl, 2010

Video, 9´20", Courtesy the artist
Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina

“We went to Mexico with the idea of inviting Don Raul, a man of 93 years old, to dance at the 29th Sao Paulo Biennial in 2010.We wanted him to travel with us, to give dance lessons. I had seen him dancing on several occasions.  A man of ballrooms, great dancer of popular rhythms. I went to look for him at the park but he wasn´t there, we wait for him a whole month.When he returned to the park, he told us that he had escaped from a hospital, he was a little sick. He danced all day long”
Ana Gallardo, 2010

Ana Gallardo Self-taught. In 1985 she began to study painting in the workshops of master artists, trying to constitute a formal training. Since 1987 she presents her work in solo and group exhibitions, participates in residencies and support grants for specific projects in Argentina and abroad.She also performes parallel curatorial practices, trying to create opportunities for exposure, reflection and construction of a context.

www.anagallardo.com
https://es-es.facebook.com/EspacioForest

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Nasan Tur, Berlin says..., 2009

Vídeo digital, 6´32", Courtesy the artist. Presented by Neuer Berliner Kunstverein n.b.k., Berlín, Alemania

The work Berlin Says... is part of the series City says..., which Nasan Tur (b. 1974 in Offenbach / Germany, based in Berlin), apart from Berlin, also realized in Istanbul, Belgrade, Vienna, Ljubljana, Milan and Stuttgart. In Berlin says ... the artist explores the interactive structure of language, cultural codes and symbols in public space. He brings together more than one hundred graffiti tags from Berlin house walls and sprays them on an inside wall of his studio, one slogan on top of the other, until at the end a homogeneous red surface emerges. The single letters and the content of each statement are becoming less and less visible. With this performance, the artist does not only question the communicative value of these statements, but also addresses the use of certain expressions in different systems and social classes as well as the shift of meaning in the course of time. In his videos, photographs, installations and interventions, Nasan Tur deals with political and social issues in a humorous way. The focus is mostly on approaching cultural differences and on reflecting the processes of social marginalization.

Nasan Tur Born in Germany (1974), and graduating from the Hochschule für Gestaltung HFG-Offenbach, Germany (2003), Nasan Tur’s work reflects the social conditions in which it is produced, often exploring political ideologies, subliminal messages, and the symbols of power and dissent that are present throughout the urban landscape. An exploration of the tension between public action and inaction is intrinsic to his practice, with a participatory element often implicating the subjectivity or presence of the viewer. The boundaries of communication, as well as the tentative, or fragile nature of perception, are both driving forces behind the practice of the artist, and many of the situations that that he creates.

www.nasantur.com

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Rahraw Omarzad, Gaining and Losing..., 2012

Gaining and Losing.../ Ganar y perder..., 2012
Vídeo digital SD, 6’, Courtesy the artist
Centre for Contemporary Arts, Kabul, Afganistán

In his new video Gaining and Losing (2012), a short narrative in four episodes overlaps past, present, and the future. Referring to the massive destruction of archeological artifacts a the Kabul National Museum of Afghanistan during the past decade, and to the current reconstruction of Afghan cultural infrastructures, Omarzad plunges us in a troubled space time of fear and desire, disappointment and waiting, underlining the incongruous calm and suspended tension of the present condition in Afghanistan. Here physical disability symbolizes the cultural,  economic, military, and political need for understanding and enablement in the face of a country full of contradictions and potentialities, as well as the West’s unlitateral and simplistic perception of it.

Artist and writer Rahraw Omarzad is Founding Director of the Center for Contemporary Arts Afghanistan, an independent artist- run space in Kabul that provides equal opportunities for men and women to improve their knowledge of the arts particularly in a search for new expressions that will enable art to play a significant role in the development of Afghanistan. Omarzad also launched the art magazine Ghanama-e-Hunar in 2000 with his students. He employs painting , photography and video to investigate themes related to contemporary Afghan society. Dealing in particular with the relations between empowerment and disempowerment; collapse and recovery; war and peace.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahraw_Omarzad

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