Whitechapel Gallery

Rosa Barba, Robertas Narkus and Jokūbas Čižikas, Danielle Dean

Artists’ Film International

03 Apr - 03 Jun 2018

Rosa Barba, Still from Outwardly from Earth’s Center, 2007, 16mm film transferred to digital, colour, sound, 22 min. Courtesy the artist. Produced by the Baltic Art Center, Visby
Artists’ Film International
ROSA BARBA, ROBERTAS NARKUS AND JOKŪBAS ČIŽIKAS, DANIELLE DEAN

3 April – 3 June 2018

In 2018 we consider the theme of truth and the relationship between fact and fiction in international artists’ film.

Rosa Barba (b. 1972, Italy) records absurdist efforts to save an imaginary Swedish island from disappearing into the sea in Outwardly from Earth’s Center (2007), and brings together fictional experts’ reports and interviews.

The Race (2015) by Robertas Narkus (b. 1983, Lithuania) and Jokūbas Čižikas (b. 1988, Lithuania) remixes the word ‘drone’ used in the mass media, with dance music, rap verses and proverbs.

Danielle Dean’s (b. 1982, USA) work True Red Ruin (Elmina Castle) (2017) maps the release of Nike’s ‘True Red’ trainers in 2003 and utilises design elements from Elmina Castle built by Portuguese colonizers in Ghana in 1482, exploring the relationship of slavery, commerce and power throughout history.
 

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