{"id":11945,"date":"2012-06-26T11:43:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T11:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randian.art\/?p=11945"},"modified":"2023-05-02T11:50:02","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T11:50:02","slug":"stairway-to-heaven-or-enter-through-the-penguins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randian.art\/zh-hant\/stairway-to-heaven-or-enter-through-the-penguins\/","title":{"rendered":"Stairway to Heaven (or Enter through the Penguins)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Moataz Nasr at Galleria Continua<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Tunnel,\u201d solo exhibition by Moataz Nasr.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Galleria Continua<\/a><\/strong> (#8503, Dashanzi 798 Art Factory, 2 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang, Beijing). Mar 24\u2013Aug 19, 2012.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You enter through the penguins, a crowd of inflatable riot police, walk past the cute-kitsch porcelain figurines, including police assaulting a woman (\u201cCairo Walk\u201d2006), past the restaurant-neon military badges that have taken flight (\u201cFalcons\u201d 2012) \u2014 and there against the back wall stands a striking white pyramid. Atop its precarious steps, giant wings await: you become an angel \u2014 an Egyptian eagle. An attendant takes a photo to record your ascent, which is then added to the collection at the foot of the pyramid, forming collective wings, with each photo a feather. It is a transcendental play, transforming us mortals into immortals and making material the moral question, \u201cWhere do you stand?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Egyptian artist Moataz Nasr\u2019s exhibition \u201cThe Tunnel\u201d at Galleria Continua in Beijing presents circus fun tempered with critical resonance. Nasr is an artist who speaks directly and forcefully for a civil society. The exhibition is sometimes blunt, sometimes eloquent, but above all timely. The badges that have taken flight are \u201cEagle Gamal [Abdul Nasser] 2012\u201d and \u201cFalcon Anwar [El Sadat] 2012,\u201d referencing two reformist Egyptian presidents of recent history, the latter assassinated in 1981 by an army of religious fundamentalists. The badges address Egypt\u2019s conflicted contemporary moment, wrestling modernity and faith, democracy and military rule. Elsewhere, a 1:1 video shows a young man repeatedly kicking a concrete wall, attempting to knock it down (\u201cThe Wall\u201d 2012), its meaning ambiguous because unlike its Berlin counterpart, this wall remains standing. The lions that guard Qasr al-Nil Bridge in Cairo have a bandage over one eye \u2014 hurt but not blind, still resolute. Meanwhile Nasr\u2019s renowned videos of colorful Sufi dervishes spinning bring a more reflective tone, as do the re-workings of traditional symbols as pictures composed of colored matches that are set on fire (\u201cNesr\u201d 2012 and \u201cKhayameya\u201d 2012).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe Wall,\u201d video, 1\u201934\u201d, loop, 2012.
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The highpoint of \u201cThe Tunnel,\u201d though, is Nasr\u2019s dual-channel video, \u201cThe Echo\u201d (1933-2003), in which excerpts from famous old Egyptian movies are played simultaneously with new counterparts in which a woman repeats the dialog word-for-word. Nothing changes. Imagine the cavernous warehouse of Galleria Continua empty but for these films playing alone at the top of the tower. The exhibition would have been just as successful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cMissing Parts (Ice Cream Map),\u201d puzzle, 180 x 120 cm, 2012.
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