Sentences with phrase «floating coffins»
Sedira has created a 14 - screen sculptural film installation entitled Floating Coffins.
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Zineb Sedira, Floating Coffins, 2009.
Floating Coffins, 2009 Video still Courtesy the Artist and Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris Hans Ulrich Obrist, Director of International Projects and Co-Director of Exhibitions & Programmes at The Serpentine Gallery, will be in conversation with exhibiting artist Zineb Sedira drawing upon video excerpts of the artist's work.
The exhibition will feature recent work by contemporary artists who use the moving image as a versatile tool for both documenting and questioning reality, including Zineb Sedira's fourteen screen installation Floating Coffins 2009 and Steve McQueen's Static 2009, which probes ideas of freedom and migration through the potent symbol of the Statue of Liberty.
Zineb Sedira's installation Floating Coffins is a representation of Nouadhibou.
Zineb Sedira Floating Coffins 2009 Installation view 14 screen video installation, 8 round speakers and cables Image by George Torode
Filmed on the little - known coastline of Mauritania, where the world's shipping is beached and broken up, Floating Coffins draws parallels with another of the region's characteristics — the harbour city of Nouadhibou, which has become a point of departure for African migrants trying to reach Europe.
This exhibition also shows a number of new photographic and light box works made in conjunction with Floating Coffins.
Floating Coffins is a space where life, death, loss, escape, abandoned and shipwrecked journeys meet.
Not exact matches
It is hard to say just what Moby - Dick, Melville's greatest and most famous work, really is: a metaphysical Romantic tragedy about Captain Ahab's sexual obsession with an enormous white whale; an immense picaresque comedy about sailing; or a serio - comic grand opera that begins with the narrating Ishmael bored by the streaming crowds of New York and ends with him alone in the ocean, floating on the harpooner Queequeg's coffin.
«Show me pictures of coffins, show me bodies floating in water, play violins, and show me skinny people looking sad.
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coffin's hope was that visitors would choose certain of his «props» and put them in the way of the projection so that they would appear as floating shadows over the countryside — silhouettes of silhouettes of images, doubly liberated from whatever their contexts once were.