Masquerading as an Oversized Underwater Mountain Range | A Make Believe Rainbow After a Storm (reprise), 2016

The artwork pledge

• NO POVERTY
• ZERO HUNGER
• QUALITY EDUCATION
• LIFE BELOW WATER
• LIFE ON LAND

Tags

• Africa
• Anthropocene
• Basel
• Brutalism
• Deep Time
• Dystopia
• Egypt
• Eternal Return
• Europe
• Everyday Life
• Extinction
• Figurative
• Future
• Jon Rafman
• North Africa
• Nostalgia
• Painting
• Photography
• Science Fiction
• Social
• Socialism
• Soviet Union (USSR)
• Surrealism
• Switzerland
• Urban
• Utopia
• Video
• Works on Paper

About this artwork

On this constructed, almost geometric image, Basim Magdy superimposes two photographs-turned-abstract elements. The background, divided in two height-wise in beige and pink, is a serene landscape upon which a film strip takes up the left half. Thanks to the transparency of the latter, the image is split up into four sections of different hues. Candle-like sticks are scattered on the orangey-red film, their flame dancing across the frames.

This work is part of a series of similar pieces commissioned by the Jeu de Paume in Paris for the exhibition “Basim Magdy: No Shooting Stars, satellite 9 programme,” curated by Heidi Ballet, in 2016. The series accompanies the eponymous film, which “is built around the personal narrative of an unidentified inhabitant of the ocean space, a territory that lays dormant on the margins of our awareness and does not enter history books.” Shot on 16mm film, the artist isolated individual frames, exhibiting them in a row, like snapshots of a fever dream.

More artworks by Basim Magdy

• Basim Magdy Masquerading as an Oversized Underwater Mountain Range | A Make Believe Rainbow After a Storm (reprise), 2016 Hunt Kastner €2,420
• Basim Magdy Masquerading as an Oversized Underwater Mountain Range / A Make Believe Rainbow After a Storm (reprise), 2016 Hunt Kastner €2,420
• Basim Magdy Someone Tried to Lock Up Time (Cassini), 2018 Hunt Kastner €15,730

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