Review in Art Agenda: Barbara Sirieix on Basma Alsharif’s “DOPPELGÄNGING” at Galerie Imane Farès, Paris The video is surrounded by an extensive display of photographs that are all part of an installation titled The Story of Milk and Honey (2011). Much like the rest of the works on view at Galerie Imane Farès, this installation testifies to Alsharif’s inability to speak about a place inaccessible to her. Born in Kuwait to Palestinian parents, she grew up between the United States and France and now leads a nomadic life, traveling internationally with an American passport. In the introductory exhibition handout written by Israeli filmmaker Eyal Sivan, one finds a quote from Alsharif in which she expresses her distress of not being able to re-enter her ancestral homeland, the “PROMISED LAND,” as she puts it. Alsharif originally wanted to write a love story about the Levant, as if it were a classical Arabic song, but ultimately she found herself conflicted by questions of nationalism and its underlying orientalist rhetoric. art-agenda/reviews/basma-alsharif%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Cdoppelganging%E2%80%9D/
Posted on: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 17:11:51 +0000
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