Set pictures from Paradise Lost - the soon to be released feelgood film
In a couple of days - end of october - I am going to install the video work at the foyer of the PMB building at the Weesperzijde in Amsterdam. Introducing some characters from the movie and the setting now... tattarataaa THE CHARACTERS
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| [Paradise island installation at Sloterdijk Station] |
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| [detail paradise island] |
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| [At night - arriving at the empty station -where i built up paradise, and was being watched by clochards and night bus drivers] |
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| [Supergirl] |
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| [Eva] |
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| [Adam] |
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| [musician] |
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| [student and musician] |
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| Everybody happy in paradise: no one gets send away! |
Paradise preparations
I was preparing the shoot in september of Paradise Lost, my own feelgood video, that will form the 3d part of the trilogy expo. Luckily this summer i was hanging around in one of my favorite Caribbean paradise islands. I followed some juicy apples around and finally took a bite.
And what happened? I was send straight out of paradise back to ole nitty grey gritty Amsterdam.
2nd part of trilogy expo Paradise Lost: the first day of Superman (2012) by belit sağ
superman evoked reactions....
belit is a female Turkish artist. She finished the two year programm at Rijksakademie around the end of 2015. her work questions the thinkable and the unthinkable, that what we hear and that what is being hushed up, ethics and esthetics, distance and the frame in which images are being put into, and at the same time all that escapes the frame.
This way she also questions the role of the media and the way images being brought by the media manipulate the debates in societies. She is concerned about bigger political issues but tries to bring them under the attention in a small scale human way. This way the audience can relate to often complicated political issues. her camaera wanders of to small human details that might not fit real well in the bigger media story. The French writer Georges Perec says: “the only thing missing in
the daily news is the daily”. This sentence resonates with the work the first day of Superman.
It was made in 2012.
belit met Superman, a Rumanian immigrant trying his luck on Dam square. After some weeks Superman returned to Rumania. At Dam Square there was a whole community of disguised people and musicians from Bulgaria and Rumania. They used to lunch together at Dam square. Right after the shoot, the performing in disguise was being prohibited in an attempt to 'clean up the square'. The videowork shows the transition from a migrant to superman. The difficulties concerning this transition are of cause related to more than just his actual disguise.
1st part of trilogy expo Paradise Lost: Scene # 001 by Zindzi Zwietering
The daily routine of an elderly Amsterdammer...
Zindzi’s
werk is geworteld in de alchemie tussen humaniteit en publieke ruimte. Het
contrast of juist de relatie tussen het gedrag van de mens en de publieke
ruimte blijft haar fascineren. Ze onderzoekt of en zo ja hoe we in een tijd
leven waarin we steeds minder waarde hechten aan fysieke ruimte. Haar startpunt
is altijd verbazing; ze ziet absurdisme in het dagelijkse. Ze kijkt naar de
stad alsof ze naar en tableau kijkt. Alsof het een vooropgezet spel is, een
dans waarin stadsbewoners als figuranten fungeren.
Zindzi leerde ik kennen tijdens een kunstproject voor jongeren dat ik was gestart - pArtie - dat haar fotografie op haar zestiende al naar de Appel bracht. Ze evolueerde zich van daaruit tot volwassen fotograaf. In 2016 studeerde ze af aan de KABK. Als geboren
en getogen Amsterdammer slaat ze haar omgeving 24/7 op en verwerkt die tot vaak
poëtische en intrigerende beelden.
Zindzi liep stage bij Sharon Lockhart in Los
Angeles en Polen. Onlangs ontwikkelde ze samen met haar afstudeerlichting
fotografen de succesvolle expositie ‘What’s Good!?’ in de Melkweg galerie, waar
werk van gerenommeerde en startende fotografen naamloos geveild werd. Zie voor meer: www.zindzizwietering.com
Paradise Lost # Escaping the city = exhibition at PMB Amsterdam -june 2016- dec 2016
“Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to
disappear just because you can't see what's going on.”
So i asked two artists to think about the tense relationship between escapism, refugism and the city. Are you fleeing from the city, or the other way around, or are you diving in as if it were a big blue carribean sea when temepratures are rising...
What paradise are people looking for? What does this dreamy, beautiful place look like? That resulted in three video works, some stories, some pictures, some reactions on a blackboard, a palmtree in my narrow corridor and a lot of time spend at Sloterdijk station.
Artists Zindzi Zwietering,
belit sağ , Lies Aris
Curator & stories: Lies Aris
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