In this event, artists Jasmina Metwaly and Philip Rizk move between, image, text and voice to reflect on theatricality, montage and the political life of images, following what remains in motion from their ongoing collaborative research [Excercises] on Trials (2016/2020).

This includes the screening of two films; Rizk’s essay film Mapping Lessons (2020, 60’) assembles found footage and archival material and excerpts from fiction films to follow ghosts of political events across history, beginning with the moment of the Syrian revolution. Alongside Metwaly’s Anbar (2019, 19’) reflects on the choreography of statehood and authority through the figure of a military tailor. Together both films take moments of revolution and crisis as starting points, interrogating how images participate in the production of political knowledge.

The artists will also share new directions in their individual practices.

Image: Film still, Mapping Lessons by Philip Rizk, 2020. Courtesy of artist.