Exhibitions

Between 11 and Noon Exhibition at The Running Horse

Wednesday, Feb 20, 2013
From Feb 21 to Mar 16, 2013
12:00pm -> 7:00pm
Daily [excluding Sundays]
The Running Horse

The Running Horse is hosting a solo exhibition by Rasha Kahil called “Between 11 and Noon”. The exhibition will showcase some of Kahil’s beautiful photographs for you to enjoy.

Photography portraiture has long been a practice of peering at the other, some might say voyeuristically, through the photographer’s lens by the photographer and the viewers, privileging a subject, a moment, an experience of the sitter – an attempt at immortality.

In her latest series “Between 11 and Noon”, Kahil takes this practice to fix in time and space a yearning for her idealised male. This male emerges from the series a composite object of these seven portraits. Alex, Erwan, Mark, Mattias, Maxime, Ronnie and Xavier share the desired traits of the archetype: same physical type, and temperament, the tousled hair, unshaven face and tattoos. The desire, never culminating in a real resolution, is conceived by the artist to become a physical appropriation of these men through her photographic practice.

The artist confronts herself and the “object” of her desire with her infatuation without allowing “it” to actively play a part. It is a controlled scenario where she imposes a meeting in her studio – between 11 and noon – and captures what these men represent to her, thus giving rise to a certain vulnerability in the sitter.