Take Me To This Place, I Want To do The Memories Exhibition at The Running Horse

The Running Horse is hosting an exhibition titled “Take me to this place, I want to do the memories” by Atfal Ahdath, a collective bringing together Vartan Avakian, Hatem Imam and Raed Yassin.

“Take me to this place: I want to do the memories” is a multimedia installation. The work lays out a constellation of forms and reproduction procedures around photographic studio practices in the digital age.

The exhibition explores and manipulates the techniques that have fashioned a culture of reproducibility and standardization and accelerated the Arab world’s fascination with fame. Through the use of instruments indispensable to the contemporary popularized studio practice, such as photomontage, the artists explore the potentialities of body doubles and image copies. The installation revolves around a set of digitally manipulated images, broken down and reassembled to include the artists’ faces in the most remote of places. Portraiture becomes an art of disembodied faces and uprooted sceneries, infinitely reproducible and ultimately unconvincing.