Neïl Beloufa, “Sustainable Development”, MRAC Sérignan, 2017, © the artist & VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018, Photo: Aurélien Mole
Neïl Beloufa: ‘Global Agreement’ at the Schirn The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt presents ‘Global Agreement’, a new work by the award-winning video and installation artist Neïl Beloufa. August 23 – October 28, 2018]]>
Source: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
For “Global Agreement” Beloufa creates walkable sculptural installations in the Schirn Rotunda, which is freely accessible to the public, as well as in an adjoining exhibition space. An interview collage on film is visible on various monitors in parts of the sculptures. It is dedicated to the human body and its discursive and political importance and shows Neïl Beloufa’s latest interest in the army, weapons, fitness, beauty, and the body cult as well as in the staging of power. Power is a central, recurring theme in his work—the social conflict between majority and minority, between dominance and oppression, as well as the power of images for our perception of reality. The video work is based on interviews that the artist conducted with male and female soldiers from different countries via the video chat service Skype.
The film as an artistic medium constitutes the focus and point of departure in Beloufa’s oeuvre. He uses its production parameters, such as set, lighting, perspective, and editing, for the development of his videos, sculptures, and installations. These installations and spaces are forms of expression of the film narrative; the narrative is portrayed in and on them in each case. Fiction and reality fuse in Beloufa’s videos. Viewers become irritated by their own perception and eventually can no longer distinguish between truth and falsehood. In his works Beloufa also frequently examines art and his own activities as an artist. His works are produced collaboratively with the aim of eliminating the singular position and the subjective perspective of the actual author.
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