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13th Biennale for Contemporary Art Dakar

Place: Goethe Institut, Dakar

Date: -

Performed by: Oumy Ndiaye [Opening of the Biennale] | Jamila Barry [Following day]

Artists: Isabella Fürnkäs

Works: Vice Versa

Two flat screens are placed obliquely on a white mattress, like cushions on a bed. On them, agitated scenes are shown while the soft voices of a woman and a man can be heard. A performer stands motionless in front of the screens, which display fragmented images. The work raises questions about the individual’s state of mind in a hyper-connected world and, more broadly, addresses issues of gender and socio-cultural spaces.

Isabella Fürnkäs (*1988 in Tokyo) is the recipient of the "Förderpreis des Landes NRW" for media arts and a fellow of the "Cité Internationale des Arts Paris." She studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Andreas Gursky, Keren Cytter, and Johannes Paul Raether, as well as in Hito Steyerl's class at the Berlin University of the Arts. The French-German artist works in the fields of visual art, video art, drawing, and installation. She combines her installations with performances and sculptures. Her investigations into the perception of the collective and the individual question the construction of our identity illusions through the various temporalities of universal spaces.

- Text by Philip Küppers

Multimedia installation with performance in the frame of the Artist Residency of the Goethe Institut, Dakar, Senegal

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