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Piéce Unique
by Runa Islam
United Kingdom 2012, 3′
Presented at Lo Schermo dell’Arte Film Festival 2015 – Italian Premiere in the presence of the artist
PHOTOGRAPHY: Tim Sidell
PRODUCER: Studio Runa Islam, Tim Sidell
A short film reveals the rigorous and poetic language of Runa Islam, one of the best-known artists in the world of moving images. She uses the medium of cinema, its technique and essential grammar, to call attention to visual representation. Her works draw from the imagery of great cinema classics, concentrating on minimal fragments, moving on the hesitations and introspections of slow motion. In Pièce Unique (2012), the artist frames geometric and transparent lines animated by slow movements. The artist utilizes the mechanical subjectivity of the TV camera’s eye to evoke the human gaze, subverting the cinematic tradition based on narrative story.
Runa Islam
Born in Bangladesh in 1970, she lives and works in London. She produces minimalist installations which combine cinematographic technique and the history of cinema. Among her most recent one-person exhibitions: Anatomical Study, KIOSK, Ghent (2014); Dogs Devouring Horses/The Move, Arter, Istanbul (2012); Projects 95: Runa Islam, MOMA, New York (2011); Lost Cinema Lost, Galleria Civica, Modena (2008). She has also participated in group shows, including: The Cinema Effect, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC (2008); the Biennale di Venezia (2005); the International Biennial in Instanbul (2003).
Born in Bangladesh in 1970, she lives and works in London. She produces minimalist installations which combine cinematographic technique and the history of cinema. Among her most recent one-person exhibitions: Anatomical Study, KIOSK, Ghent (2014); Dogs Devouring Horses/The Move, Arter, Istanbul (2012); Projects 95: Runa Islam, MOMA, New York (2011); Lost Cinema Lost, Galleria Civica, Modena (2008). She has also participated in group shows, including: The Cinema Effect, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC (2008); the Biennale di Venezia (2005); the International Biennial in Instanbul (2003).
Selected Filmography
2013 Anatomical Study I 2012 Meroe 2011 Emergence 2010 Cabinet of Prototypes; Magical Consciousness 2009 This Munch Uncertain
2013 Anatomical Study I 2012 Meroe 2011 Emergence 2010 Cabinet of Prototypes; Magical Consciousness 2009 This Munch Uncertain
TAGS: Festival 2015Runa Islam