Translations
Multi-media installation, various formats, 2017
Anna Faroqhi & Haim Peretz
in collaboration with Mohammad Stas
The work Translation collects current stories of flight and displacement. Memories of refugees at individual stages of their journey are transferred through video, photography, music, text, and drawing into other narrative modes that give aesthetic form to the emotional impressions and traumatic experiences. Various people take part in this artistic translation process, recreating the process of escape graphically and cinematically, slipping into the role of the protagonists as speakers, or performing their story in song. Through this artistic transfer, new perspectives and details reveal unexpected facets of the experience of having to flee.
Exhibition at Saalbau Gallery, Berlin from 18 November 2017 to 14 January 2018
Film screening at gallery
Thursday, 21 December, 12 pm to 14 pm
Short Film Programme curated and guided through by pupils from the Konrad Agahd School.
Workshops and artist tours with various participants
The work consists of following video-installations
To record and to remember, 3-channel video installation based on three stories, 2017
Jacob’s grueling flight from Eritrea lasted five years. Only then he could begin to build up a
life in Rackwitz, near Leipzig. He sings his story, accompanying himself on the traditional
krar.
Zeynab and Amin, from Iran, took photographs during their journey. But there are no
pictures of the dangerous border crossings and the passage across the Mediterranean.
The Mottaweh family fled from Syria. The children narrate and translate for their
father. They made drawings of their journey.
Lana, 2017
Lana, her husband, Didar, and their son, Layad, fled from the Kurdish part of Iraq.
During their journey their cellphone was stolen, with all their photographs.
Lana’s Story, 2017
Pupils from the Konrad Agahd School give back the stolen pictures in a drawn film.
Mustafa, 2017
Mustafa, from Aleppo, Syria, fled from torture and military service. He tells his story in a friend’s apartment in Delitzsch, near Leipzig.
Mark Waschke reads Mustafa‘s Story, 2017
The actor Mark Waschke reads Mustafa’s story in a room in the Galerie im Saalbau Neukölln.
Hanin, 2017
Hanin didn’t want her face to be seen on camera. We see her hands drawing and her daughter playing.
Ruth Rosenfeld interprets Hanin‘s Story, 2017
The singer and actor Ruth Rosenfeld interprets Hanin’s story in a sound document.
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