Exhibition Freedom of Movement

Video Works by Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani

Opening Times:
Tuesday - Saturday, 1:00-6:00 pm

Opening reception:
Thursday 24 August 2017, 6:00-8:00 pm

The MART Gallery’s curatorial vision for 2017 is to select artists who work under the parameters of risk and political agitation, creating powerful, informative and experimental work. Within this programme MART presents "Freedom of Movement" an exhibition of film work by renowned German artists Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani.
The exhibition shows two recent film installations "Identity’s Rule of Three" (2015) and "Freedom of Movement" (2017). These films pose questions on various aspects of human identity and society, the limits of geographical, artistic and social structure, and race relations.
Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani are visual artists and directors who have worked collaboratively since the 1990s and both live and work in Berlin. Through their work they have explored narratives in various sites around the world juxtaposing hidden histories with the lived experiences of contemporary society and questioning cultural perspectives.
 
Identity’s Rule of Three
HD, colour, stereo, 20 min., 2015 
An an­i­mated film that seizes the highly controversial de­bate around the planned pre­sen­ta­tion of eth­no­log­i­cal col­lec­tions in the re­con­structed Berlin City Cas­tle as an op­por­tu­nity to en­vi­sion a dif­fer­ent fu­ture. Play­ful and yet se­ri­ous, it ex­plores ques­tions of au­then­tic­ity and iden­tity of the in­di­viduum, art, ar­chi­tec­ture and so­ci­ety.
 
Freedom of Movement
3 chan­nel video in­stal­la­tion, HD, 9:45 min, 2017
Evok­ing the Olympic marathon from Rome 1960, in which the Ethiopian Abebe Bik­ila con­quered the African con­ti­nent’s first gold medal, run­ning bare­foot and be­com­ing a sport­ing leg­end and a sym­bol of an Africa that is free­ing it­self of colo­nial­ism, Fis­cher & el Sani have re­con­tex­tu­alised amidst Rome’s ra­tio­nal­ist ar­chi­tec­ture, a new race in­volv­ing refugees and im­mi­grants stak­ing a claim to their “free­dom of move­ment”, also un­der­stood as the pos­si­bil­ity of being wel­comed in an­other coun­try.

Curated by Deirdre Morrissey supported by Directors Matthew Nevin & Ciara Scanlan

Supported by The Arts Council of Ireland, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (IfA) and the Goethe-Institut Irland
 

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