Locomotion
انتقالات
Video, digital prints, and site-specific augmented reality
2018 – 2021
Can we recognize the dimensions of our bodies without their relation to the places they occupy?
Our connection with place might be complex, as the need for leaning on it is equal to the need for liberation from it. Perpetual physical and mental movement reshapes this relationship, a never-ending repositioning.
Excerpt from The Red Shoes
The Red Shoes الحذاء الأحمر
Single-channel video, 3:50 M, 2018
'Based on images Sulafa Hijazi took from her neighborhood in Berlin. The <socialist> architecture along the Karl-Marx-Allee, known for its East German military parades as well as the demonstrations in 1953 and 1989 evoke memories of houses constructed in Damascus during the era of the emerging Baath Party, reflecting the idea of modernity. The architecture and spatial arrangements are composed of strong rigidness, which is mirrored in the means of her work: digital grids.
The App for the augmented reality piece «Positioning» invites people to interact with a square image consisting of architectonical and digital grids to explore the movements of the bodies in their attempts to free themselves and to find a place in the given frameworks.
The video piece borrows its title «The Red Shoes» from the famous fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen: a girl puts on red shoes, which are cursed: she cannot stop dancing.'
Rayelle Niemann, July 2018
Atelier Transpart, Linz, Austria.
Atelier Transpart, Linz, Austria.
In front of Atelier Transpart, Linz, Austria, 2021
Dimensions أبعاد
Site-specific augmented reality, 2021