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Exhibition dates: 5th October 2018 – 10th Feb 2019
Curated inured to Steven Matijcio
Installation view, Akram Zaatari: Representation Fold – Space, hold your fire and description image
© Contemporary Covered entrance Center, Metropolis, OH, 2018
Photo: Tony Walsh
Akram Zaatari (Lebanese, b. 1966)
Damaged Negatives: Scratched Portraits of Wife. Baqari
2012
Made go over the top with 35mm spoiled negative hit upon the Hashem el Madani archive
Inauguration view, Akram Zaatari: Rendering Fold – Space, at this juncture and depiction image
© Contemporary Art school Center, Metropolis, OH, 2018
Photo: Tony Walsh
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Akram Zaatari
Akram Zaatari
'Letter to a Refusing Pilot'June 1-November 24, 2013
Press conference: May 29, 2:30pm, Arsenale, Calle della Tana 2169/f
Professional preview: May 29-31www.lebanonatvenice.com
Akram Zaatari will be presenting a major new work, titled Letter to a Refusing Pilot, in the Lebanese Pavilion at the 55th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. Curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, the exhibition marks the debut of Zaatari's most aesthetically ambitious and politically nuanced project to date, and creates a dialogue between two works, a new 45-minute video and a looping 16mm film, in an immersive environment conceived as a stage awaiting an actor, or a cinema awaiting a spectator.
In the summer of 1982, a rumor made the rounds of a small city in South Lebanon, which was under Israeli occupation at the time. It was said that a fighter pilot in the Israeli air force had been ordered to bomb a target on the outskirts of Saida, but knowing the building was a school, he refused to destroy it. Instead of carrying out his commanders' orders, the pilot veered off course and dropped his bombs in the sea. It was said that he knew the school because he had been a student there, because his family had lived
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"'How's life in Lebanon? Especially...': On Akram Zaatari's Missives
Love
In the video Tomorrow Everything Will Be Alright (2010), viewers witness the reunion of former lovers in what appears to be an online chat that is reenacted and performed on a typewriter. Their affair and heartbreak slowly unfurls as the one who ended the relationship ten years earlier decides to make contact. His missive appears on the paper one sentence at a time, while the rejected lover slowly types out his hurt, bewildered, reticent and hopeful responses.
Within the video, Zaatari inserts a cascading set of coded anachronisms that call into question the possibility of a future for the lovers, largely through the metaphor of the sunset. Subtle and controlled, he uses part of the soundtrack from an Egyptian film Remember Me (1978), in which lovers separated by other marriages dread the sunset.⁴ Zaatari also dedicates the video to Eric Rohmer, referencing Rohmer's film Le Rayon Vert (1986 In the Rohmer film, the protagonist seeks out the sunset and believes its final rays will help her overcome fear of intimacy. As the Rohmer film draws to a close, his protagonist succeeds in falling in love. Zaatari's video ends with an image of the sunset, and what appears to be a time