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Eröffnung: Freitag 7.8.2020, 19:00 - 23:00 Ausstellung: Sa 8.8.+ So 9.8.2020, 15:00 - 20:00 Artist Talk: So 9.8.2020, 16:00 (draussen) Die Videoinstallation hinterfragt die historische Realität von Grenzverläufen. In spielerischer Herangehensweise wird Gelerntes vergessen und die Unmenschlichkeit menschengezogener Grenzen tritt hervor. "A school bench for a primary school in the sixties forms the centre of the installation by Nermine El Ansari. The exercise books with Arabic and English titles and their corresponding national, educational techniques have been released for use and are lying ready on the table. The visitors are supposed to leave their traces with felt pens on the interleaved transparent pages. The composition is directed towards a video projection which shows a sequence of cartographic presentations of the West Bank. The cuts come in quick succession and the viewing time for individual images is short. Initially, the borderline is still clearly recognisable. Then the use of colours dominates more and more. The colours flow across the borders until they create a red-edged explosion which is immediately followed by an implosion because the loop picks up the forward movement from the beginning again. The drawing of borders and where the borders run are questioned as a historical reality by Nermine El Ansari. The playful treatment leads one to keep one’s distance from the educational effect of believing in the knowledge imparted at school, it denounces the inhumanity of made-borders and breaks with old doctrine." Martin H. Schmidt Nermine El Ansari lives and works as a visual artist between Reykjavik and Cairo. In 1998 she received her painting diploma from the School of Fine Arts in Versailles. In 2002, she graduated from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts (ENSBA) of Paris in multimedia. In 2002, she studied at the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) in Havana. Her work has been presented in various exhibitions in Egypt, France, Lebanon, Germany, Taiwan, Cuba and other countries. Nermine’s works range from painting, drawing, animation, printmaking, installation and digital live drawing performance. Her earlier pieces were primarily concerned with the body in human and beast form, often presenting a distorted view of her subjects and exploring a series of dualities and inversions. Over the last ten years, she has focused on cities, borders, territories and mapping, both real and imagined, exploring the binaries provoked by the urban landscape.