In the opinion of the jury: “Margarita García Robayo is a writer with a solid background and a brilliant career. We were impressed by her narrative voice, her clear, intense and sometimes ironic style, and her personal, unflinching approach to narrative material that is autobiographical inspired.”

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The works will be exhibited until approximately mid-March.

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The award targets artists under 40 who have built up a solid body of work but have not yet managed to consolidate an international career.

This was the case with Zhou Tao, who was unanimously chosen for his profound commitment to his environment, with the jury valuing Zhou Tao´s “intelligent use of the most appropriate medium in each case to analyse and compare different spheres such as public/private or rural/urban and even art history in general”.

The award is worth 15,000 USD: 3,000 in artist´s fees and 12,000 towards creating a new project at the BACC or for the Bangkok metropolitan area. The jury believes that Zhou Tao´s residency in Bangkok will benefit both the city and the artist, particularly given his great curiosity for his immediate surroundings. It will also allow him to further develop his works, because, in the jury´s opinion, “his works show great maturity but he is in the process of searching for his own original voice.”

The choice was unanimous. The jury of the first Han Nefkens Foundation BACC Award was chaired by art collector Han Nefkens and its members were Hilde Teerlinck, Director of the Han Nefkens Foundation and FRAC Nord-Pas-de-Calais; Luckana Kunavichayanont, Director of the BACC; Yuko Hasegawa, Head Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Tokyo and Feng Boyi, a Chinese freelance curator and art critic.

As part of the cycle ‘Mediterranean’ organized by the Espace Culture from October 2012 through April 2013, FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais is featuring two Middle Eastern video artists in this exhibition. Besides Shirin Neshat also Raedah Sa’adeh and her video Vacuum from the collection of 49 Nord 6 Est FRAC Lorraine.

A window is a source of light, of images, of communication, but what it reveals is not always visible, or it is visible only in part. The window thus plays a double role: it exhibits and dissimulates, it acts as a springboard both for our imagination and for our demands.

The two videos by Shirin Neshat and Raedah Sa’adeh are like two windows open onto women’s condition in the Middle East. The two artists invite us to adopt their gaze…to listen to their voices. Each tells us in her own way—one through metaphor, the other through narrative—her stories, her experiences, her feelings, and her insights.

The first artist, Shirin Neshat, is Iranian and works in the United States. In her 2003 video, The Last Word, a woman is subjected to an interrogation in the basement of a building, and recites the lines of the poem Window by Forough Farrokhzâd.

The second artist, Raedah Sa’adeh, is Palestinian and works in Israel. In Vacuum, she evokes both submission and rebellion. She acts out a scene in which she is vacuuming the desert. This Sisyphean gesture challenges the notions of identity and gender, denouncing in particular the status of Palestinian women.

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Illustrated: Aila 51 by Rinko Kawauchi

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IDFA

Ebb & Flow has also been selected to participate in the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA, www.idfa.nl). From 14 till 25 November 2012. Ebb & Flow will be part of the Reflecting Images – Panorama section, which brings together a series of films that are thought-provoking in form and choice of theme. The IDFA screening will be the international premiere of this film.

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