BLIND DATE 2.0
ALIA FARID, DANIELE GENADRY, BAYAN KIWAN, FARAH AL QASIMI, TALA WORRELL
Blind Date 2.0
March 13 – July 17, 2024
beirut
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Farah Al Qasimi (*1991 in Abu Dhabi, UAE, lives and works in New York, USA) engages with postcolonial structures of power, gender, and the prevailing aesthetics of the Gulf States in her multimedia work. Her photographs, films, and performances effortlessly tell stories between documentation and fiction, metaphor and banality, with lightness and humor. The installation in the show presents a wallpaper with a film and photographs that draw on the 1975 Japanese film version of The Little Mermaid based on Hans Christian Anderson’s original story . While they might come across as joyful pop imagery at first sight, the works tackle darker themes , questioning global trade, consumerism, desire, and endangered environments. Superposing contrasting societies and cultures, they capture daily life through the prism of multiple interconnected crises whether isolation, lockdowns, desertification, desalination or water supplies.