Screening curated by wysiwyg
Friday March 29th 2024
WITH FILMS BY Leonhard Muellner & Robin Klengel, Maryam Tafakory, Raquel Vermunt, Vladimir Vidanovski
Expanding the defined boundaries of the exhibition ‘Slow Drift(s): Peggy Ahwesh’ as a single event, The Balcony has invited collective wysiwyg (what you see is what you get) to develop a screening program responding to the exhibition on view.
Inspired by Peggy Ahwesh’s seminal body of work, the program by screening platform wysiwyg reflects on and reacts to her appropriative mentality and eclectic use of techniques. Like a digital bricoleur, Ahwesh’s notable preoccupation with utilising mainstream technology gives her work an ever-growing historical relevance. wysiwyg sets out to curate four unique short films from a mix of local and international artists, to accompany Ahwesh’s films featured in the exhibition. Films that either poetically or playfully—but always meaningfully—relate to virtual spaces, physical places, or inner worlds. Videogames are reappropriated to refer to the non-virtual; television-drama’s becomes socio-political acts of protest; lenses turn to sponges that absorb and disperse.
The selection includes a wide array of local and international artists including Vladimir Vidanovski (A CAUTIONARY TALE, 2022), Raquel Vermunt (Face Home View, 2022), Leonhard Muellner and Robin Klengel (Operation Jane Walk, 2016), and Maryam Tafakory (Nazarbazi, 2022).
