P. 03.21 - Territory, a new online exhibition, presenting the work of four International artists who explore real and imagined territories connected across time, space and technology.
‘only traces, no beings’ is a research document around notions of surveillance, bias & algorithmic injustices translated into an experimental film. A counter-mythology to popular narratives surrounding Artificial Intelligence & Technology, it assembles a series of interactions with open access neural networks as well as incorporating bi-lingual text, poetry, generative video, & sound design.
Read MoreIn ‘The Silence of a Red Lion’ (2021), Paillole confronts the still controversial topic of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) through family memories and photographic archives. It is set between three time frames: a recent telephone conversation between the artist and his father; a family reunion twenty-two years ago; and the artist's grandfather's personal account of the war.
The conflict, which resulted in a fascist victory and an almost four-decade long dictatorship, deepened ideological trenches and forced silences which enable us to understand Spain’s political confrontation today. For many years, even during Spain’s recent democratic history, it was unofficially agreed not to speak about what had happened in an attempt to conceal the country’s open scars. However, these have now become materialised as deeply-rooted political polarisation.
Through the telephone, Paillole’s father’s voice recalls the moment when his father told him about his war experiences. These brief and never complete testimonies left socio-political traces with significant gaps in our collective memory. These words should remind younger generations of the importance of speaking aloud about trauma regardless of the political consequences. As expressed by African-American author and activist Audre Lorde, “my silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you.”
Read MoreParliament Square Park in London has a statue of Mahatma Gandhi right opposite from the statue of Winston Churchill, both shared an epic rivalry that sealed the fate of the British Empire. Although they were born worlds apart, they both entered the same metaphoric battlefield against each other that would decide the fate of countries and ultimately of the empire. Churchill did whatever was necessary to ensure that India remained British and Mohandas Gandhi, by contrast, dedicated his life to India's liberation, defying death and imprisonment, and create an entirely new kind of political movement: satyagraha, or civil disobedience.
The game of chess was born out of the Indian game called Chaturanga before the 600s AD. Through constant invasions and conquests in an attempt to expand land control, the game of Chaturanga spread to the East and eventually to Europe as chess. The game embodies war & conquests in its play and in its history. The game becomes a dramatic spectacle of the British Empire unfolding through non-violence and violence in the realm of war.
Read More“Dear Visitor,
The “Carte de خودیMagie” [English translation: Map of Self-Magic] is a map of my being as an ode to my love.
My world exists in parallel to the one you already know but it diverges wherever it wishes. You are welcome to visit and stay as long as you want, as long as you enter with and for love.
Bon Voyage / سفر کے لیے نیک تمنائیں ”
