As a 19-year-old, Leila Pazooki had her first exhibition at a gallery in Tehran with photographs of water, called ‘Hydromania’, raising the instant attention of famous filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami. She moved into the opposite direction, though.
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Agustinus Kuswidananto aka Jompet created a series titled Java’s Machine since mid of 2008. This new media work consists of video and sound installation, sculptural figure and site-specific performance projects that have developed into some series of work exhibited internationally in some biennales and many other international exhibitions.
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The concept of ‘black humour’ as a distinct genre in modern literature, film and art was invented by the French, with Andre Breton laying claim to its paternity in his Anthology of Black Humour (1997).
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Black does not emit or reflect light; it absorbs all frequencies in the visible spectrum. Colour gives to the eye – by reflecting – while black takes from it. This optical phenomenon has acquired analogous cultural and metaphysical associations. In the West, black is often a symbol for death, loss and absence.
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The arts only ever lend to projects of domination or emancipation what they are able to lend to them, that is to say, what they have in common with them: bodily positions and movements, functions of speech, the parcelling out of the visible and the invisible.¹ ~ Jacques Rancière
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