Readings, 2000

Artist’s book and video installation

EXHIBITED:
SYMPTOMANIA, curat. Roland Patteeuw, Bruges, BE, 2003
KUNSTHALLE LOPHEM, ATTACHMENT+, curat. Roland Patteeuw, Bruges, BE, 2002
GALLERI PALETTEN, Gothenburg, SE, 2002
BILDMUSEET, KILLING ME SOFTLY, curat. Jan-Erik Lundström, Umea, SE, 2001
NATIONAL GALLERY, TIRANA BIENNALE 1 – Escape, Killing me Softly, curat. Jan-Erik Lundström, Tirana, AL, 2001
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART KIASMA, ARS 01 – Unfolding Perspectives, Helsinki, FI, 2001
GALLERIA SCULPTOR, Helsinki, FI, 2001
LE BATOFAR, LE NORD, curat. Oulimata Gueye, Paris, FR, 2000

Readings is a video installation including five television style parts. In two parts Rwandan nurse and Senegalese teacher living in Paris are telling their impression on the artist’s book I Say. On the second two parts they are reading out loud a part of the book. In the fifth part Rwandan nurse spends time in the international garden of Paris. In this part we hear only the sounds of the park.

The installation deals with issues of interpretation, verbalization and identities.

The piece refers to spoken word format artist’s book telling a story of Gambian guest worker in West and North Africa.