“I am like one who wore his brick to show the world how was his home.” Bertolt Brecht
Often I was asked this question: how do I see myself as an artist? My answer has always been the same: I consider myself an immigrant worker. My job is to consider what it is to be an artist, when he feels different from in his own cultural context, even in his own role.With this necessity, this permanent need to think of exile, the project of the Exile Pavilion was born, as a traveling project, offering a parallel cartography, a free geography of temporary exhibitions, with stops in different countries. The project raises the question of the exile as a new space to be reinvented, to be rethought and finally to be invested. He wants to question both the global and specific links between various forms of displacement, whether the migrant worker’s situation, the expatriate, the refugee or the exile of war, natural disasters, economical problems, and political or racial persecutions.The Exile Pavilion wants to invest and cross all boundaries, revisiting the experiences of the exile and reactivate the traces in history. Where does the exile begin and where does it end? Are we all equal against the displacement and exile? And from who are we exiles?The Exile Pavilion does not exist as an architectural building even if the proposal is made for architects to imagine. But it is the works of artists, visual artists, musicians, poets, writers, performers they are exiles or their work deals with the displacement, which build together this protean and nomadic pavilion. Its journey will make layovers at artistic structures, institutions, ephemeral places, in the form of exhibitions, publications and meetings. At each stop, the works and archival materials are redesigned according to the place and its history.
Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news.
Ethel Waters
Press
Another 7 days to discover Mounir Fatmi's Pavilion of Exile in Tangier, Tanger Experience, August 8th, 2017.
Stella, Berger, From exile I made glasses to see, Dyptik, n°35, Oct-Nov 2016, pp. 36-38.
Contact
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Nelly Agassi
PEEL-IN
Single Channel Video
2002
Courtesy: Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv and Keitelman Gallery, Bruxelles
“…the body is much more than an instrument or a means; it is our expression in the world, the visible form of our inten- tions. “ I rub my face softly but firmly with kosher salt. Irub the sur- face trying to erase mediation, creating a link between the private and public, the quo- tidian and the symbolic or cer- emonial. The salt is painfully cleansing my emotional inner landscape. I dig-in to travel unfamiliar lands and territories that are mine, that are patched togeth- er and stitched out of my biog- raphy. Peel-in is a pun on the cos- metic term “peeling” which denotes the removal of layers of skin to achieve a smooth and young-looking complex- ion. In this work, the inward peeling attempts to reach the emotional nerve center and lay bare the most essential kernel of being. The action of Peel-in is an ambivalent borderline––mark- ing the relationship between beauty and pain––as the per- ception of an alchemist where the vulnerable and fragile is also strength. I work unconstrained and from intuition where an emotion be- comes image.
About the artist
Born in 1973, Israel. Nelly Agassi lives and works in Tel Aviv. She draws inspiration from the female body, sometimes using her own body and biography as the subject her work. Through this work, Agassi explores and comments on the notion of physical presence especially pertaining to the female identity. Agassi uses self-expression and her own body as an instrument to obtain a universal human language for her audience to understand. Agassi has participated in over ten solo shows internationally since 1997, when she premiered with a project where she knitted a dress around her body. Her work is part of the public collections of The Tel Aviv Art Museum, and the Israeli Museum in Jerusalem.
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Courtesy: Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv and Keitelman Gallery, Bruxelles