Samson Projects presents a solo exhibition by Kader Attia .
4 photographs and a sculpture: Kader Attia's, Holy Land, an installation for the 1st Architecture, Art & Landscape Biennial of the Canaries was documented in a suite of photographs. Over 100 mirrors were installed on the beaches of Fureteventura facing the horizon. In 2005, Attia was nominated for the Marcel Duchamp Prize (FIAC, Paris, France); the sculpture, Untitled, was inspired by the process. It is a glass cube filled shards of mirror purposed to be handled, ever changing.
The simple observation: light which travels along the line of sight to your eye follows the law of reflection. Words & actions, experience, memories, emotions can be treated manifest; the distinction between instruction and data becomes a matter of how the information is treated by you. The echo is a reflex: ?
Kader Attia (1970, France) has recently exhibited indiviually at the BALTIC Center for Contemporary Art (Newcastle, UK) and the Ha�fa Museum of Art (Ha�fa, Israel). He recently installed a work in the Sculpture Park at Frieze (London, UK). Kader Attia is represented by Christian Nagel (Cologne/Berlin) and Andr�hn-Schiptjenko (Stockholm).
A major installation, Sleeping from Memory, is on view in his first solo exhibition in the U.S. at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston: http://www.icaboston.org/exhibitions/exhibit/attia/.
And To That I Say This
a video program curated by Kim Hennessy January 18 from 7 to 7:30 PM
Samson Projects presents a one-night video screening: And To That I Say This, curated by Kim Hennessy.
And To That I Say This is a series of short video installations by six diverse artists with poetic musings on contemporary global questions. Apropos to the demographical range of artists, the works run the gamut from reverent to light-hearted, verbose to succinct, agitated to unflappable.
The meditative, textually rich qualities of Susan Jahoda�s �of a worm in a pomegranate emphasized when juxtaposed with the repetitive tension posed by Emily Roysdon�s POW. Similarly, Sighting In, a short narration of a hunt scene by Justin Kemp. Newspeak, by Liz Unterman, points out certain tendencies of the media in a way that is both clever and poignant and Jesal Kapadia�s This is not a� is at once visually simple, complex, telling and ambiguous.
nbsp; -- Kim Hennessy Program running time: 30 minutes
1. Liz Unterman, Newspeak, 2006, color & sound in DVD, edition of 50, RT: 4 minutes, 20 seconds 2. Susan Jahoda, ...of a worm in a pomegranate, 2006, video & sound on DVD, edition of 5 + 2 APs, RT: 13 minutes 3. Jesal Kapadia, 2003, this is not a... , color & stereo sound on DVD, edition of 5 + 2 APs, RT: 2 minutes, 30 seconds 4. Justin Kemp, Sighting In, 2007, video & sound on DVD, RT: 21 seconds 5. Emily Roysdon, POW, 2005, split-screen color video with sound on DVD, RT: 1 minute, 30 seconds
