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From the 8th of September to the 24th of November, Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana presented a comprehensive programme featuring installations, archives and performances by the participants of the edition.
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Prehension
- TypeInstallation
- ParticipantAsad Raza
- VenueThe Three Chimneys
Prehension, 2024 © Asad Raza. Photo © Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana / Ivan Erofeev
The American artist Asad Raza’s practice imagines new creative and poetic possibilities to inhabit the present we inherit – in all its incoherence and toxicity. He does so by creating work that fosters relations and dialogues between beings, both living and not. Raza’s installation for Manifesta 15 works with the removal of the Three Chimneys’ window panes prior to its being reused as a public space. The installation gives form to the wind, which crosses the Mediterranean from the African continent and ‘choreographs’ the long drapes the artist has hung through the space, intertwining rhythms, ecosystems and communities, and calling up the religious use of white cloth in Islam. Its impromptu dance evokes the Franco-Caribbean philosopher and poet Édouard Glissant’s concept of pensée de tremblement (trembling thinking). According to Glissant, to refute imperial systems of domination and terror, one must work with intuition, challenging calls for assimilation and settlement by advocating for hybrid, unstable situations.
2024
Wind, removed window panes, cotton, polyester, metal
Dimensions variable
Courtesy of the artist
Commissioned by Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana with support from ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen
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