ART
Omer Fast |
Written 30 January |
Tuesday 21 September, 11:00gb agency, 75013 [map]Omer Fast
GB agency presents a solo exhibition by
Omer Fast of two previously unseen works in France: film based work "Nostalgia" and the installation "The Forlorn Lover’s Guide to the Underground and to Doubles". The three-part scenario of Nostalgia is based on a memory that gets told, passed on and reformulated several times. Each of the three chapters (three films) appears in its own space, and the viewer travels spatially and physically through the story. The origin of the work is a conversation between the artist and a Nigerian political refugee in London. Nostalgia portrays that conversation all the while creating a new fiction.
While Nostalgia addresses the idea of displacement — mental or physical — its focus is mainly the transformation of memory: from an intimate experience to the story of it, and from room to room memory becomes a story to be told.
The Forlorn Lover’s Guide to the Underground and to Doubles is the first ever non-video installation by Omer Fast. It includes more than forty items: texts, photos, drawings, photocopies and documents.
| What: | Omer Fast |
| When: | Tuesday 21 September, 11:00 |
| Where: | gb agency, 20, rue Louise Weiss 75013 [map] |
| Transport: | Chevaleret, Bibliothèque François Mitterrand |
| Cost: | 0EUR |
| Phone: | +33 (0)1 5379 0713 |
| Email: | gbagency@club-internet.fr |
| Web: | www.gbagency.fr |
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