03/08/2023
// Nassim L'Ghoul – Three Years Later He Was Still Dancing
On Friday, July 21 we opened the solo show "Three Years Later He Was Still Dancing" by the artist Nassim L'Ghoul at EIGEN + ART Lab. We are looking forward to welcoming you until August 19 at Torstraße 220!
“Three Years Later He Was Still Dancing” is an exhibition of experimental arrangements: Among other things, we associate the color white with the atmosphere of clinically sterile rooms that are never as neutral and isolated as they appear at first glance. The "laboratory-like" situations into which L'Ghoul's video works throw us are also constructed down to the last detail; our gaze within them is predetermined and directed. The work softlinks, for example, was created on the basis of a ride simulator of the Frankfurt subway. The scene sucks us in, but then leaves us standing in the mere excerpt of a possible narrative. In all the works shown, we encounter means of transportation: a raft drifts by, a canoe, a bathtub that fulfills a similar function of transporting bodies and thoughts-but they remain strangely separate from us, moving alongside us while we ourselves are moved by the encircling zoom of the camera.
L'Ghoul's videos do not offer a ride through immersively experienced stories. They thrust us into a space where animate and inanimate actors alike relate their movements to our passive being moved by the perspective provided by the artist and the technology.”
Excerpt from the press release by Ellen Wagner
Installation views: courtesy the artist and EIGEN + ART Lab, Photo: Johannes Kremer
