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Fazal Rizvi: video installation Down the river, i met a boy (2014)
Exhibition
Running Out of Tape
25 Sep 2015 – 3 Oct 2015
Event times
Thursdays to Saturdays 12;6pm
Address
- Unit 7
- 50 Resolution Way
- London
England - SE8 4AL
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Deptford
fourFOLD is pleased to announce Running Out of Tape, an exhibition that brings together the work of David Duvshani and Fazal Rizvi.
About
The exhibition questions representations of place and hegemonic historical narratives, highlighting the complex questions that arise when revisiting the past through the present, and obliquely contributing to the debate of today’s political and social concerns.
In Fazal Rizvi’s Down the river, i met a boy (2014), an outsider asks probing questions about life in the Karachi neighbourhood of Lyari to a local boy. The questions, which reveal the prejudices and expectations of the outsider, are met with short evasive answers.
David Duvshani draws and paint scenes addressing the narratives of Orientalism. Visit Palestine (2011) is a series of hand-drawn slides portraying Israel’s idyllic landscapes and buildings, but also tanks and faceless figures. The work is based on Franz Kraus’ eponymous poster from 1936, originally intended to promote Jewish immigration. The poster’s interpretation is contested, as it was later adopted by Palestinians for its depiction of the Muslim Dome of the Rock. Crusades (2015) is a series of cartoons that ridicule the efforts of both the Christian crusaders and their Muslim adversaries. Conversant with the rewriting of history from Eastern perspectives, these caricatures also remove the sense of heroism that characterises hegemonic accounts.
