Unfailing Memory

Unfailing Memory

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http://www.koki-freiburg.de/filme/5093/vernissage_unfailing_memory
http://www.koki-freiburg.de/filme/5275/videokunst-programm
http://www.badische-zeitung.de/freiburg/theater-im-marienbad/videokunst-aus-dem-iran-unfailing-memory.html?id=104985681

Program

Va Project

Unfailing Memory
Installations, Screenings, Discussions
June 12-25, 2015, Freiburg, Germany

Organizers:
Municipal Cinema in Cooperation with artline Art Magazine, Kunstverein Freiburg e. V. and Theater im Marienbad

Supported by:
Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa), Cultural Department of the City of Freiburg, Sparkasse NördlicherBreisgau, Va Space and Aaran Art Gallery

Artists:
Faraz Anoushepour, Mehraneh Atashi, Morteza Basravi, Azin Feizabadi, Amirali Ghasemi, Morvarid Ghasemi-Rahni, Ahanita Hekmat, Atefe Mahdiani, Payam Mofidi, Shirin Mohammad, Pooya Razi, BaharSamadi, Zeinab Shahidi

Curator: Samira Hashemi

Project Manager: Nicoletta Torcelli

Project Statement
Which living traces leave behind words, place and events? How is memory passed on, Transformed and repressed – from day to day, from person to person, from generation to generation?

The English word “unfailing” has several meanings in German. It stands for the reliable and infallible as well as for the relentless and inexhaustible. The works on show draw on this whole spectrum of meaning, The Persistence of Memory That is always offset with on equal persistence of forgetting and remembering MIS. Each work in its own way articulates The Possibility of restoring forgotten and failed individual and collective memories.

Unfailing Memory presents videos by 14 Iranian artists in four different venues in Freiburg. Video Works are in different formats with installations in two exhibition spaces in the gallery and screenings at the movie theater and public space. They are paired off or grouped based on the commonality of thematic Approaches and the dialogue is generated between fact / among them. Works in Unfailing Memory collectively highlight the paradox of the conjoined persistence of remembering and forgetting.