Here are three highlights from Farah Al-Qasimi’s Berlin exhibition ‘Poltergeist,’ which runs until Sept. 7 at C/O Berlin. ‘Leopard Print Blanket’ For the latest updates, follow us on Instagram @arabnews.lifestyle The Emirati multidisciplinary media artist’s first European solo show confirms her growing international status. Its title, Al-Qasimi says in an interview on the gallery’s website, is partially “an ode to one of my favorite horror movies” — the eponymous 1985 movie — “in which a little girl gets sucked into the TV in her house. It’s kind of a metaphor for the digital realm, or a world that you can’t see.” ‘Hand Print’ “I’m less interested in the spooky aspect of it and more interested in it as a metaphor for the different energies that infiltrate our homes without us noticing,” Al-Qasimi continues. “Like the technology of algorithmic advertising and data mining. These different unseen but harmful, or invasive, presences that are working to disrupt the peace within a home.” ‘Marrim’s Eye’ In this exhibition, the gallery suggests, Al-Qasimi “creates a mysterious, uncanny atmosphere” with the “surrealism of her visual compositions.” The catalogue says: “She astutely observes our contemporary culture and foregrounds topics such as identity, feminism, consumption and economic growth.”
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