SONG OF SYRIA

2016

A VIDEO INSTALLATION IN TWO PARTS, “SONG OF SYRIA” OFFERS AN AESTHETIC AND POLITICAL REFLECTION ON THE CONFLICT THAT HAS BEEN UNDERTAKEN IN SYRIA SINCE 2013.

THE PROJECT.

Made from cell phones or small on-board cameras, these scrambled and pixelated recordings are characterized by an illegibility that questions their status. Posted on Youtube, these anonymous images constitute an unstable mass with the aim of circumventing the media censorship operated by the regime of Bashar al-Assad by testifying to the reality of the conflict. Through a temporal game and a reframing of images, “Song of Syria” questions the conditions of visibility of the Syrian conflict and its actors.

Metaphorically taking up the resulting visual interference, this installation underlines the digital nature of these protests and the dissociation that takes place with the reality on the ground of its actors. Unveiled in the hollow behind the movements of the camera, the presence of the human brings about a corporeality that makes the observer question what is being shown. Combined with the hovering threat of the sound of a helicopter in flight, the dueling device invites physical and mental immersion in a warlike environment whose abstraction only reinforces the violence.

EXHIBITIONS.

2017 / Outside Zone # 2 - La Recyclerie, Paris
2017 / Szczecin European Film Festival - Szczecin, Poland