to see oneself at a distance - exhibition trailer
What does "to see oneself at a distance" mean to you? Sometimes when we are in the middle of history it's hard to see its scale, consequences, its meaning to us personally, and its impact to society at large.
In this video get a quick overview of "too see oneself at a distance" an exhibition that will invite you to look against the grain and re-examine the way revolutionary histories been portrayed through the work of Hương Ngô, Kapwani Kiwanga, Maryam Jafri, and Suneil Sanzgiri. Each of these four artists, in their own ways, reckon with reverberating moments of anticolonial liberation and solidarity, and their contemporary legacies. By holding these histories at arms lengths the artists question heroic narratives, political power, the precarity of memory, and spectacular media landscapes. Together they suggest that liberatory projects will always remain unfinished, improvisatory, and as invigorating as they are fragile.
Hương Ngô
Vấn đề phụ nữ: A Question or a Problem (2023)
Courtesy of the artist
Dó paper from @zóprojecthanoi, mounting by @cmmframing
Kapwani Kiwanga
Selections from the Flowers for Africa series (2015-2020)
Courtesy of the artist, Galerie Poggi, Goodman Gallery, Collection LM, KADIST Collection, Collection FRAC-Île-de-France
© 2023 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Designer: Tu Le @tuhle, 328North @328northfarm
Ceramicist: Steffany Trần @vyvoistudio
Maryam Jafri
Versus Series (2012-2015) and
(Dis)appearance Online (2021)
Courtesy of the artist and Kai Matsumiya Fine Arts
Suneil Sanzgiri
At Home but Not at Home (2019), Letter From Your Far-Off Country (2020), Golden Jubilee (2021)
Annotations to Ricardo Rangel’s “Initiation of the Collapse of the Portuguese Empire” (1961) and Annotations to Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s hand gesture during the opening ceremony of the Bandung Conference (1955) (2023)
A new sculptural installation featuring archival ephemera (2023)
Courtesy of the artist
Videography: Luis Salazar
Direction, Editing: Sofia Taylor @saltboxfilms7003