Sept. – Oct. 2015, Cizre
“The daily papers talk of everything except the daily” G.Perec “News coverage from conflict areas generally consists of sensational material. The footage reflects only selected ‘moments of reality’. While local daily life continues as usual, it’s mainly overshadowed by footage that either glorifies or sensationalizes violence or its consequences. “Which images are worth showing?” and “How to produce images?” become central issues in the works of belit sa?. Her videos focus mainly on the rhetoric, presentation and manipulation of images of conflict, with a particular investigation into the role of the image maker in the politics of representation. sa?’s work discusses the imaginable and unimaginable, the audible and muted, ethics and aesthetics, distance and involvement; it is an exercise in curiosity, going after what is visible and audible in the frame, and what is, simultaneously, escaping it.” – Vincent van Velsen on Sept. – Oct. 2015, Cizre
I just read this one: “… The story never stops beginning or ending. It appears headless and bottomless for it is built on differences. Its (in)finitude subverts every notion of completeness and its frame remains a non-totalizable one. The differences it brings about are differences not only in structure, in the play of structures and of surfaces, but also in timbre and in silence. We – you and me, she and he, we and they- we differ in the content of the words, in the construction and weaving of sentences but most of all, I feel, in the choices and mixing of utterances, the ethos, the tones, the paces, the cuts, the pauses. The story circulates ciculates like a gift; an empty gift which anybody can lay claim to by filling it to taste, yet can never truly possess. A gift built on multiplicity. One that stays inexhaustible within its own limits. Its departures and arrivals. Its quiteness….” Trinh T. Minn-Ha, Woman, Native, Other |
