Session 2013
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Installation view: Nevin Aladağ: Fanfare, HENI Project Space, Hayward Gallery, London, 2020. Photograph by Thierry Bal.
3-channel video installation, HD video, each audio channel mono, each film 6 min
(photo credit: Thierry Bal)
Installation view: Re:emerge-Towards a New Cultural Cartography, 11. Sharjah Biennial, 2013
3-channel video installation, HD video, each audio channel mono, each film 6 min
(photo credit: Sharjah Art Foundation)
Session is a video triptych shot in Sharjah’s urban areas and desert. In this musical composition, different kinds of Arabic, African and Indian percussion instruments, all found in the United Arab Emirates, are played by the elements – the sand, the sea and the wind.