Artist talk and book presentation with Patricia Morosan + screening of Images of the World and Inscriptions of War (1989, 75 min, English) by Harun Farocki
Lund Art Gallery invites you to an artist talk with Patricia Morosan.
Patricia Morosan will introduce her new work, the artist book M/other (2023), which is presented in the current exhibition Ways of Unseeing at Lund Art Gallery. The talk is followed by a screening of Harun Farocki's seminal film Images of the World and Inscriptions of War (1989).
November 18 at Lund Art Gallery
Free entrance
In English
2–2.45 Artist talk/book presentation
2.45–3.15 Break (sandwiches and coffee for sale)
3.15–4.45 Introduction to, and screening of, Images of the World and Inscriptions of War
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Patricia Morosan is an artist born in Romania who lives and works in Berlin and Athens. She's working with photography, text and sound. In her practice she approaches the duality of intimacy and identity. Her work is often collaborative and participatory and concerned with ideas and methods based on emotional geography, wanderings and ceremonials. In the exhibition Ways of Unseeing Morosan is presenting two works: the artist book M/other (2023) and the photographic installation Re/turn (2016–).
M/OTHER (2023) is an artist book which gathers on 236 pages electrical signals from the mother's heart. What is shown in the artist book is a 19-minute extract of a 24 hour EKG recording. The medical device counts time and writes it down using a time frame of 10 seconds per page. Every sheet becomes a time-telescope, depicting the work of the heart's valves. A pronunciation of time: heartbeat by heartbeat. The medical language appears here as a score onto which the artist wrote a multilingual poem that manifests itself as a spell.
Harun Farocki (1944–2014) produced more than a hundred films for TV and cinema before his death in 2014. Besides this, he served as editor for the influential journal Filmkritikk and taught at the universities of Berkeley and Vienna. He enrolled at the German Film and TV academy, but was thrown out of the school in 1966 as a consequence of his political activism.
Bilder der Welt und Inschrift des Krieges (Images of the World and the Inscription of War, 1989), is a study of the status of the photographic image in Western modernity. In this work, Farocki demonstrates that opportunistic tendencies have always surrounded this perceived ability of the medium to render absolute truths. This essay film brings together visual materials from a variety of sources: Lufthansa's flight simulators, scenes from a croquis session, archive materials related to the development of photogrammetry, machines used to make architectural plans and surveillance photographs taken by French intelligence agencies in Algeria in the 1960s In the film, Farocki delves into the depths of the human race's obsession with the use of visual means to depict our surroundings, and asks what it is that actually happens when images and reality are mistakenly assumed to be one and the same.
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The talk and screening is supported by IASPIS/konstnärsnämnden. Patricia Morosan is currently an IASPIS residency grant holder in Malmö.
The evening will be moderated by curator, writer and artist Hans Carlsson, who is the curator of Ways of Unseeing.
Read more about the exhibition
see also:
Artist talk and book presentation with Patricia Morosan + screening of Images of the World and Inscriptions of War (1989, 75 min, English) by Harun Farocki
Lund's art gallery invites you to an artist talk with Patricia Morosan.
Patricia Morosan presents her artist book M/other (2023), which is part of the current exhibition Ways of Unseeing at Lund Art Gallery. The talk is followed by a screening of Harun Farocki's film Images of the World and Inscriptions of War (1989)
November 18 at Lund Art Gallery
Free entrance
In English
2–2.45 Artist talk/book presentation
2.45–3.15 Break (sale of sandwiches and coffee)
3.15–4.45 Introduction to, and display of, Images of the World and Inscription of War
Patricia Morosan was born in Romania and is active in Berlin and Athens. She works with photography, text and sound. In her practice, she explores, often with a feminist lens, the different layers of intimacy and identity. Morosan's work often develops through collaborations and can be described as a kind of emotional geographies or ceremonies. In the exhibition Ways of Unseeing she presents two works: the artist's book M/other (2023) and the photographic installation Re/turn (2016)-).
M/OTHER (2023) collects on 236 pages a 19-minute excerpt from a 24-hour ECG recording of the mother's heart. The medical equipment counts the time and represents it with 10 seconds per page. Each sheet becomes a time portal, showing the work of the heart valves. The medical language appears like a musical score on which the artist has written a multilingual poem that takes the form of an incantation.
Harun Farocki (1944–2014) produced over a hundred films for TV and cinema, as well as several video installations for exhibition contexts. In addition, he was editor of the influential magazine Filmkritikk and taught at the universities of Berkeley and Vienna. He began studying at the German Film and Television Academy but was kicked out of the school in 1966 because of his political involvement.
I Bilder der Welt und Inschrift des Krieges (Images of the world, the imprint of the war, 1989), the status of the photographic image in Western modernity is studied, and shows that the opportunism surrounding the medium's ability to render the truth never really ended. In the essay film, visual material from a number of different sources is connected: from Lufthansa's flight simulators, scenes from a sketch painting, machines that make architectural drawings, and images taken by the French superpower in Algeria for surveillance purposes during the 1960s. In the film, Farocki delves deep into man's obsession with rendering his surroundings through visual means, and asks what actually happens when image and reality are mixed together
The conversation and the screening are supported by IASPIS/artists' committee. Patricia Morosan is currently an IASPI resident scholarship holder in Malmö.
The evening will be moderated by the curator, writer and artist Hans Carlsson, who is the curator of Ways of Unseeing.
Read more about the exhibition
https://lundskonsthall.se/en
see also:
patriciamorosan.com
www.harunfarocki.de
hanscarlsson.com