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You Never Look At Me From The Place From Which I See You
by Anike Joyce Sadiq
2015
Original Format: Interactive video installation
Presentato a VISIO – European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images – IV edizione
Courtesy the artist and Klemm’s, Berlin
As often happens in this artist’s research, the work on exhibition is activated by the physical presence of the viewer in the room and by his/her inevitable involvement. Through a game of shadows, illusions and projections on different planes, Sadiq’s video installation creates a meeting space in which the artist and the viewer exchange roles and gazes. The stripped-down setup, essentially consisting of a chair and a video projector, generates a complex and sophisticated non-verbal dialogue that takes shape on the screen, creating a space where hierarchies and differences disappear. The work is part of a broader research by the artist, focusing on the dynamics of social relations, exclusion and inclusion processes, and on the centrality of the role of the viewer in the artistic process.
Anike Joyce Sadiq is now living and working in Florence participating to the residency program of Villa Romana as a fellow. She studied at the Stuttgart State Academy of Fine Arts. Using her videos, interventions and performances, she creates zones of social contact and discusses practices of alienation and exclusion. She addresses the viewer as an actor and companion. Sadiq has already participated in numerous projects, exhibitions and performance events. Recent exhibitions: !”You Never Look At Me From The Place From Which I See You”, 45cbm, Kunsthalle Baden, Baden, 2015; “The light in me weights a ton”, C2, Florence, 2015; “Florence Contemporary”, Italian Embassy, Berlin, 2015; “Ein Knie geht einsam durch die Welt (…)”, Palermo Galerie, Stuttgart, 2015; “Was glänzt ist für den Augenblick”, in collaboration with Julia Herbrik, Theater Rampe, Stuttgart, 2015.