Wu Tsang’s solo exhibition There is no nonviolent way to look at somebody presents films in dialogue with her sculptural practice, working with the interaction of glass, light and text, and including a new stained glass commission conceived for the Gropius Bau.
With its hybrid cinematic language, Wu Tsang’s new film One emerging from a point of view examines the present and the political, dealing especially with the experience of migration. Filmed on the Greek island of Lesbos, it addresses the current situation that the landscape and islanders have been confronted with: the trauma of forced displacement. In 2015 alone, over 850,000 refugees reached Greece, many arriving at the shores of the island Lesbos, having travelled over the sea to flee war and untenable political circumstances. Documenting within this context, Wu Tsang employs a magical realist approach, allowing the boundaries between fact, fiction and surreal narrative to be intentionally fluid. What has commonly been referred to as a “refugee crisis” is structurally encountered in the film as a crisis of representation.
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Lee Miller – Man Ray: Fashion, Love, War
Hrair Sarkissian: The Other Side of Silence
Gillian Wearing: Wearing Masks
Paik’s Video Study
Jean-Michel Basquiat's 'Untitled (Skull)
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Sebastião Salgado – Amazônia
A Peek through the Iron Curtain with Sibylle Bergemann’s Wintry Duo
Lingering in Time : Koo Bohnchang’s Photography 1990 - 2021
