Shuruq Harb: The Jump & Musquiqui Shihying: The Lighting
30 Jun 2022 - 14 Aug 2022
As winners of the 2019 Han Nefkens Foundation production award, they have been commissioned to produ...
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As winners of the 2019 Han Nefkens Foundation production award, they have been commissioned to produce new moving image works, screened in WIELS over the summer.
Shuruq Harb’s The Jump is set within the tectonic rift of the Jordan Valley and explores the psychological terrains of leaping into the void. The film is narrated by a robotic voice that guides us through dizzying shots of the landscape while speculating about the conditions surrounding a Palestinian man's jump into the Mediterranean.
In The Lighting, Musquiqui Chihying aims to revisit and clarify the issue of discrimination rooted in technological development. Photosensitive papers, image-recognition technologies and computer algorithms used for image-correction are based on human prejudices. They are prone to error and often result in the skin tones of certain groups of people being inaccurately exposed.