Monday, September 26, 2011

Bye bye Testosteroni

Nina Fischer/Maroan el Sani
Colour print on alu dibond
118 x 149 cm. Edition 3.
A girl enters the space she makes a sign: Time-out, and freezes for 5 seconds.

Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani
Impero dei Segni

Galerie Eigen + Art
Berlin

With the Saudi Arabian Women getting the right to vote this weekend, Monday morning begins with a great boost...
To move the perspective from Saudi Arabia and to a completely different Male chauvinistic territory we go to Italy and Berlusconi's world, where this photography series has been shot by Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani.

I came about this rather poignant photography series IMPERO DEI SEGNI at Galeri Eigen + Art (Berlin), it records the performance of a temporary intervention with activists at the empty Palazzo dei Congressi in Rome.

Nina Fischer/Maroan el Sani
Colour print on alu dibond. 118 x 149 cm. Edition: 3. 










They sit down on the floor for a sit-in and freeze for about 5 seconds.

















"The work IMPERO DEI SEGNI thus unites two sets of themes in contemporary art: on the one hand, the discourse surrounding 'appropriation and art in public spaces' and on the other,  'artistic intervention in the political'. The work thus seizes on essential questions in intervention art, such as those already posed by Situationists and other ephemeral, situation- specific performance artists, in short: how can artistic criticism have an effect in the political sphere? The project does not dwell on the aesthetic argument of these objects, but offers a concrete set of instructions for action through the work. The work can be seen as a piece of 'fine art' - fine in the sense that it possesses edifying qualities for the viewer and prompts, quite literally, action, the art of action." 










- Galerie Eigen + Art










 
Nina Fischer/Maroan el Sani
Colour print on alu dibond. 118 x 149 cm. Edition: 3. 








They line up and build a word in Italian sign language: Manifesto













The "silent" demonstration is set appropriately at the Palazzo dei Congressi which is a building built as Mussolini's vision of a 'Third Reich'. The non-verbal communication is set out for you to interpret through, gestures, body language and sign language.

"Bye, Bye Testosteroni" is quite an amusing way of saying hey look at us, we have a manifest to give you, but please be welcome to interpret it your way.

Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani
Impero dei Segni.
Bye bye Testosteroni
Installation view Gallery Eigen + Art, Berlin 2011




















Hope your week will be filled with inspiration.









With Love

Kristin

8 comments:

  1. I have serious editing problems... Hope it is not too confusing to read!

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  2. always interesting post at your place!

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  3. I think that all art is suitable for public spaces- I certainly don't limit what my monkeys see.

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  4. Très cool ce froid blanc d' espace, cold en somme, avec les signes blanc..

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  5. i agree with demie up there....thanks for sharing this with us!

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  6. Art will be art...it's good to be exposed to all sorts- I surely enjoy it :)

    Claudia xo

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  7. That is very interesting. Kisses, sweetie.

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