Amzrou / Morocco

Sylvia Safdie

Amzrou / Morocco

Video, photography, drawing
August 22 – October 5, 2013
Opening: Reception with the artist on Thursday, September 12, 5pm – 7:30pm
Dust
2009
Color video, silent
4 min 50 sec
Morning
2009
Color video, sound
1 min 33 sec
The Gardian ( excerpt)
2009
Color video, sound
3 min 26 sec
Amzrou Synagogue Interiors, Series 1, Interior 1
2009
Color video, sound
1 min 16 sec
Amzrou Synagogue Interiors, Series II, No 1
2009-2011
Color Video, silent
2 min 9 sec
Video still
Morning 1
2013
Video still, inkjet print
15,3 x 27,1 cm / 6 x 10.7 in
Morning 12
2013
Video still, inkjet print
15,3 x 27,1 cm / 6 x 10.7 in
Morning 18
2013
Video still, inkjet print
15,3 x 27,1 cm / 6 x 10.7 in
Morning 47
2013
Video still, inkjet print
15,3 x 27,1 cm / 6 x 10.7 in
Fig. 5
2013
Graphite on Mylar paper
23 x 30,5 cm / 9.1 x 12 in
Fig. 7
2013
Graphite on Mylar paper
23 x 30.5 cm / 9.1 x 12 in

“With the Morocco series Sylvia Safdie set out to investigate what happens when a community long identified with a particular location is displaced. […] Her interest and sensitivity to the issue of displacement as transformation is due in no small part to her own [experience].” Excerpts from Eric Lewis, The Video Art of Sylvia Safdie The Gallery will exceptionally be closed on Thursday, September 5 and Saturday, September 14, 2013

“With the Morocco series Sylvia Safdie set out to investigate what happens when a community long identified with a particular location is displaced. […] Her interest and sensitivity to the issue of displacement as transformation is due in no small part to her own [experience].”

Excerpts from Eric Lewis, The Video Art of Sylvia Safdie

The Gallery will exceptionally be closed on Thursday, September 5 and Saturday, September 14, 2013

Press release