Video installation, 4,5 × 3,5 m projection, 17:27 min loop, stereo sound, Böhler Areal, Hall 9, Düsseldorf, DE, 2025 A conspicuous, oversized patch of white occupies a prominent position in the industrial hall, reminiscent of an island overlooked or forgotten. Lines that traverse the surface are formed of hybrids of word and image. The process […]
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Multi channel video-Installation with objects, loop, stereo, 41’12” + ‘Scattered Glossary’ project artist book (120 pages) The immersive multi-channel installation Scattered Sea is intricately designed with five white shallow water pools, conceptually ornamentally shaped, into which three long, semi-transparent projection veils flow from above. Visitors move freely between the projected images. The installation runs in […]
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Site specific video installation, 3D animation, 6,5×4 m projection, 7′ loop, stereo, Ulmer Höh’ Prison Chapel, Düsseldorf, DE Invited by Mara Sporn Created for EMPTY SPACES III: THE DREAMS ARE STILL THE SAME with a Limited Edition 11/11 + 3 A.E. EN Glass hovers between worlds. In this site-specific video work, the destroyed church window […]
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Art installation in public space, double-sided billboard, 5×5 m, Kunstinsel am Lenbachplatz, Munich, DE Invited by the City of Munich Situated on an open transit point, two words float on a double-sided billboard above greatly enlarged Polaroids – back-to-back. The depicted white characters refer to two large cultural regions; an oversized Hebrew and Arabic word […]
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ALL DAYS MORNING Art installation in public space, sound installation and relief object, Werksviertel, Munich, DE Sound ~50min loop, relief object, corten steel, ~70×22,7×2 cm Commissioned by Werksviertel Mitte Kunst – since Nov 2022 in permanent collection The work ALL DAYS MORNING (or can be read as ALL DAYS TOMORROW) is an art installation in […]
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Site specific intervention, silk, nettle cotton, sand, wall paint, IKOB, Eupen, BE, 2021 A flag made of airy satin silk hovers above a heap of sand. Above the viewer‘s head a long river of cloth passes through the space, ending outside the gallery’s window, exposed in the open – connecting inside and outside. German original […]
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FRAGILITY ON A THREAD Intervention in public space, 33 nettle cootton flags and pieces, 180cm long, Max-Joseph-Platz, Munich, DE, 2021 Commissioned by Pulse of Europe eV The Pulse of Europe Initiative of Munich asked artist Lia Sáile to reflect on solidarity and the EU. Sáile‘s work evokes questions: What are basic conditions of solidarity? Who is […]
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site specific intervention, sand, Studio for Artistic Research, Düsseldorf, DE, 2021 Two sand forms on the ground reflects the size and outline of two windows that have been closed in the studio to create a white cube. The big window is 2,20m x 1,50m H and the small window is 1m x 1,50m H, their mirror […]
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Cultures and religions shape the coexistence of modern cities. In their diversity, they occupy space in urban life in various forms, whereby their presence, their scope for action and possibility, their public visibility and their perception by the population not only differ greatly, but also change continuously. The resulting tensions are also inscribed in the […]
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Interdisciplinary art project with Prof. Michael Reder Art intervention in public space, projection, Wittelsbacherplatz, Munich, DE, 2019 Invited as Artist in Residence by WhiteBOX The core of the interdisciplinary art project is a publicly accessible art installation which builds on the approachability, experienceability and emotional perceptibility of the sensitive and supercharged inter-cultural and inter-religious themes […]
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site specific intervention, sand, 2019 Sand mirrors the exact form and dimensions of the door entrance frame, doubling space s well as the act of entrance. The fragile and in its core participatory sand work throws visitors into the delicate question of either entering and surpassing the rectangle or staying at the door frame […]
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Hand embroidered dupion silk, 27 cm x 40 cm, 25 + 5 A.E., TN/DE, 2018 Commissioned by Leikela gallery Based on the heart of the documentary experimental film [TUNIS] and the international artistic street light exchange IN BETWEEN LIGHTS, the textile limited edition BETWEEN LINES continuing their cross-cultural theme by focusing on intercultural connection, exchange […]
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Installative light intervention, steel construct with light, 204-212 cm x 250 cm Commissioned by Jazzfest Berlin The installative intervention TRANS LUCENT was specifically developed for the 55th edition of the JazzFestival Berlin 2018, curated by artistic director Nadin Deventer. Drawing on the festival’s political themes the art project picks up their conceptual strings, developing them […]
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2K-video, color, 5.1 dolby surround + stereo, 14’33” A sea between languages – four German-Tunisians search for words. Translating a poem turns into a long and heated discussion about language, culture, heritage, migration, refugees and — inescapably — politics. A documentary experimental film based on the poem [Tunis] by Adrian Kasnitz, 2013. Protagonists Abir Akriche-Jendoubi, Ferdaous Kabteni, Kais […]
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photo © Jennifer Braun Installation in public space, 2 street lanterns, Cologne and Tunis, DE/TN, 2018 Photo and video documentation of the processes in both countries The art installation IN BETWEEN LIGHTS is a precise, focused intervention in public space, exchanging two street lanterns between the twin cities Cologne and Tunis – continents apart. By exchanging a Tunis street light […]
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Site specific audio, stereo, 6′ Passage 17 is part of a conceptual site specific exhibition based on a shared experience among the artists, creating works together for the exhibition Eine Schifffahrt for Photo Düsseldorf 2018. The exhibition space stays empty. Instead of the expected photographic works at the photo festival, audio guides are handed out […]
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Intervention in public space, two performers, white tape The temporary home for asylum seekers near Ebertplatz, launched in the 1990s, rented by the City of Cologne, measuring 20 x 10 meters, has five floors and shelters about 70 asylum seekers of over 30 nationalities, cultural backgrounds and varying ethnicities and religions at a time. Some […]
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Timed sound intervention in public space, two megaphones, 4′ each The sound intervention consists of two megaphones positioned at opposite sides of the Ebertplatz facing each other, each triggering sound simultaneously at specific times. Depending on where a person stands, the sound is perceived differently, which can be adjusted by moving around between the two sound […]
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Site specific installation, neon lights, 5 printed satin cotton flags, 61 – 96 cm/24 – 37.7 width The site specific art installation at Sightfenster is located in the display windows of a temporary home for asylum seekers. Set among neon lights, cotton flags depict fictional entrance and door motifs based on photographs from areas of conflict across […]
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6 fabrics/prayer flags, 35 cm x 110cm, New Delhi, IN, 2016 Hand woven, natural colored, un-processed raw silk is embroidered via manual machine embroidery. Loosely based on Hannah Arendt thesis on Plurality of Languages, six Hindi words are stitched onto the fabric, reflecting the process of saying, writing, reading, understanding and translating a word and the space […]
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Installation of embroidered silk projection screen, 200 x 110 cm, and HD vide loop, stereo, 17′ Using hand woven, natural colored, un-processed raw silk as a base, the process of stitching an Aztec code symbol using manual machine embroidery in New Delhi in a small local textile and tailoring firm is documented. The code is embroidered in the same white […]
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Installation in public space, 3 objects, concrete, steel, tin, fence, Vienna, AT, 2014-2015 USA/MEXICO BARRIER (8 x 3 m) ISRAEL/WEST BANK WALL (6 x 5 m) BELFAST PEACE LINE (6 x 7 m). Part of main-project COMMON DIVIDER The art project LARGEST COMMON DIVIDER picks representative border walls in their recognizable basic forms and symbolically re-erects them […]
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3 HD-videos, black and white, loop, stereo, 9’45” Based on civil and military footage of border control cameras these digitally altered videos depicting crossings at the Mexico/USA border (North-/South America) and Melilla border (Africa/Europe) focus on the actual act of frontier crossing itself. Various degrees of pixilation through gif-algorithm compression, reduced to pure black and white images, […]
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HD-video, black and white, stereo, 12’22” The experimental film ‘RELEASE’ ranges from a conceptual work of art to a sensual cinematic experience – clashing and uniting both, creating a hybrid form, each questioning and deconstructing the other. It explores the subject of ‘disintegration’, breaking down a unity into its smallest pieces, leading to temporary destruction; […]
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HD video, loop, 7’50, stereo, 2013 Line is a collection of video clips using the world wide web as a source to approach the diverse topic of border lines. Using googlemaps, google earth, googlestreet and private youtube footage from civil border patrols, that freedom to roam the word virtually is utilized to visit borders and barriers installed […]
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site specific, time based installation, stereo, loop, 25’07” R 103 THRESHOLD was inspired by the old Japanese theatre stage technique called ‘dogugaeshi‘ (道具返; dôgu: tool, requisite; gaeshi: change, exchange), in which multiple ‘fusuma‘ (襖; wood-, paper panels, like partitions or flat stage settings/backdrops) are revealed behind each other, usually in a motion similar to opening sliding doors. […]
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HD-video, black and white, loop, stereo, 5’28” The video documents extracts of a road trip from Cairo, the Egyptian mega city with 9 million people, to the white desert, 5 hours away. The aesthetics of the video of a fast succession of the stony desert landscapes resemble visual noise. Preferably installed in off spaces, the screenings […]
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Site specific video installation, v-jaying, live performance during concert, 2012/2013, monastery Irsee, DE ‘Stucco’ was performed (v-jaying) twice in Irsee, 2012, specifically created for stucco gaps in room 128 of the monastery Irsee in Bavaria, Germany. Three oval stucco framed shapes in the ceiling of the decorate the ballroom. Historically these reliefs were meant to be filled with baroque paintings, […]
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3 HD-videos, no sound, 34″14′, AT, 2010-12 Asian ink drawing and painting in gerenal – specifically the styles of the Muromachi-period (especially Sesshū Tōyō), the Japanese Rimpa-school (like Sakai Hōitsu, Ogata Kōrin) as well as Chinese painting (Mi Youren (Southern School), Zha Shibiao (Xin’an School) and Gao Fenghan (Yang Zhou School) notedly) – have been subsumed […]
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Carpets with paint (grey, blue, white, beige, black). various sizes (0,3 – 0,7 m w x 0,5 m – 1,3 m h), 2011 Rugs of different sizes are painted multiple times, each layer drying before the next is added. By painting the textile’s surface repeatedly over time, less of the actual object is visible, and yet more […]
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Photomanipulation series of 13, photo print on aluminium, 2010-12, DE, AT Limited edition of 5, 45 x 30 cm, 40 x 30 cm
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Series of super 8 films, digitalized, loop, 2010 Part of Polaroid series IN BETWEEN (2008-2010) With these super 8 projections the difference and tension between still images (photographs) and moving images (super 8) is analysed by creating a hybrid: a looping moving image, that in its essence becomes a dynamic still image. Credit Richard Bevan, Marlene K, Togola, Aishan […]
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Analogue photo series of 6, digital alteration, 2007 This photo series, created in the Maltese sea in 2007, is the prequel to the experimental video RELEASE, dealing with presence and absence, focusing on the abstract process of death and decay. Credit Noel Borg – maritime assistance Nela Adam – performer
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video, stereo, 7’26”, 2006 A curtain freeing itself from a window is an almost sculptural performer in this video, connecting the outside with the inside in a playful way. Credit Hui Fen MIN+Wei Li – music The Curtain on Vimeo
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video, stop motion, stereo, 4’19” Fragmented images of a female figure and her surrounding of a closed room in Vienna collide with the outside sounds of an English man walking through Rabat, Morocco, to his hotel room. The sound is digital found footage from the internet. The world wide web connects these contrasting moments seemingly […]
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video, stop motion, no sound, 1’02” A moment burst into its fragments. Moments II: Broken Lilies on Vimeo
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photo series, 2005 “The Palm House is located on the site of the former Dutch Botanical Garden and was erected in 1881/2 to designs by Franz Xaver Segenschmid. […] Linked by tunnel-like passages, the pavilions contain different climatic zones: a ‘cold’ house to the north, a temperate zone in the central pavilion and a tropical zone in […]
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