Sarah abu abdallah / get london look

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Sarah Abu Abdallah / Get London Look

A project by Like A Little Disaster
www.likealittledisaster.com

April 23 - May 6, 2015
by appointment only

Like A Little Disaster is honored to present "Get London Look", a video project by Sarah Abu Abdallah.
Swinging between cinema, video art, experimental documentaries and performances, Sarah Abu Abdallah establishes with the viewer a dialectic project, a critic vision that proceeds for attempts and fragments. Her language gradually leaves the linear storytelling and chooses instead a dialectic one, defined as contorted, enigmatical, fragmented in time and lost in outer space. Everything is translated into an exciting and rhythmic cutting, freedom and fragmentation of the narrative trend make it more difficult for the viewer to follow the 'slippages' between the story time and the time of the subject.
Sarah Abu Abdallah's films allow us to become familiar with languages and signs of the "Near East" and lead us in a hyper-connected world that inhabits our unconscious; her works are created with the awareness that they will be shared online or even specially created to be shared and displayed in the internet.
Sarah Abu Abdallah practice is based on the fault line of a ‘global’ network that is no more centered on the traditional economic power centers of the US, UK and Western Europe. Her works also show how new media and internet taught us to create a mental collage between a screen and another in such a way to set up our daily movie, as if they were a compilation of data that follow routes only partly determined by our tastes and decisions and partly by the aggressiveness of the new corporations. 
Because notion of identities are in an endless state of transition, Sarah tries to give sense to the world around her focusing on identification and examination of rapid cultural shifts happening today across the world. Looking at the progress as a native in the digital age, she seeks to discover new articulations in the arts, through interdisciplinary practices, while global context is perpetually in flux.

The Salad Zone, digital video, 2013, 21 min.
The work offers disarrayed glimpses of multiple narratives such as that of familiar domestic tensions, a juvenile dream of going to Japan, the tendency to smash TVs in moments of anger and eating fish, up to more cryptic performances enacted in the malls and apartments she calls “home”. The use of scenes from the artist’s surrounding sand life in Saudi Arabia, like streets or malls, never attempts to provide the whole picture, enabling to take a rhizomatic approach to the story of the everyday life.

Delighted to Serve, digital video, 2014, 17 min, 
in collaboration with Joey L. De Francesco
The film is a collaborative effort of young video artist Sarah Abu Abdallah and Joey L. De Francesco (born 1988 in the United States), a visual artist, musician, performer and labour union activist.
Relying on memory and forms of self-documentation, this collaborative video piece takes an absurdist look on daily life and the crushing aspects of mundane work. The script and the figure of the protagonist, played by De Francesco, derive from the artist’s experiences as a “former hotel room service” attendant (the film, in which Joey submits his resignation to his boss accompanied by a brass quintet has tallied more than 3 million views on YouTube).
Abu Abdallah’s and De Francesco’s film is a reflection on the economic precariousness circumstances faced by young people, and on the search for a survival strategy in the face of the modern world's dynamics of power and alienation. 

ARTIST BIO 
Sarah Abu Abdallah was born in 1990 and grew up in Qatif, Saudi Arabia where she has graduated at CFAD/Sharjah, UAE and is currently pursuing her masters degree in Digital Media at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence. Her recent exhibitions include; Arab Contemporary in the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, Migrating Forms in NYC, the Serpentine Galleries 89plus Marathon in London, the 11th Sharjah Biennial in 2013, Rhizoma in the 55th Venice biennale 2013 and Private Settings, Art After The Internet, curated by Natalia Sielewicz, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw. She has contributed to the Global Art Forum_7’s fellowship programme in Art Dubai 2013.
She contributed to Arts and Culture in the Transformative Times festival by ArteEast, NYC, and the Moving Image panel on Video + Film, curated by Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Palazzo Grassi, Venice.

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UK