The instant LEE PLESTED; director of SETAREH Gallery; presented the idea of curating a "SPOTLIGHT" exhibition for Berlin's GALLERY WEEKEND end of April MMXXIV!?
Immediately MICHAEL SAYLES came to mind!
The small annex in back of the gallery is ideal for what I had in mind?
imagine the "boutique des curieaux" of the Rive Gauche in Paris or those over stocked "Mom and Pop's" stores of yore? Something akin to these memories; however framed through the perspective of a gallery's "white cube"! One that just happens to incorporate a pyramidic ceiling window!
While James (@number1mainroad32 ) and Lee choreographed the hanging of the exhibition I enlisted ALYA HATTA to pelter SAYLES with queries fluctuating through subjects ranging from; #art #artefact #africandiaspora #repatriation #immigration #procedures #graphite #perception #theft #culturalheritage #appropriation PLUS tons more! All in this short "conversation"!
...as HATTA's; "Some Seeds are Still Bitter" was being taken down from the main room to make way for AAAJIAO's "A bit, A prompt"; I enlisted her to interview MICHAEL on this his first "INTRASPECTIVE" at:
- SETAREH
SETAREH is thrilled to present for this instalment of SPOTLIGHT, an occasional program for exceptional projects, a survey of three decades of work by Berlin based artist Michael Sayles. This first mini-Intraspective exhibition, curated by long time friend and collaborator Eric D.Clark, and is a window into the mind of “Afropean” culture.
SAYLES’ work delves into… NO! IS the repatriation of a cultural appropriation practiced throughout modern times by the likes of many “popular” visual artists from the 15th to 20th century’s; specifically art of African descent; everything his work represents is a mirror to culture shamelessly stolen in the tenets or rather edicts of so called “discovery”? The bringing of civilisation to the already civilised… subjugate a people by removing their identity; culture and the spoils of said endeavours; one might think of the Benin Bronzes as an example; a proverbial “drop in the bucket” as it were…A Jamaican born immigrant to Birmingham, England; through South London to New York; currently based in Berlin via Cologne! An Artist perfectly in consort with a plural history shared by millions expressed by few; hence Michael Sayles’
-Eric D.Clark
Over Michael’s 35 plus years there has always been a poignant use of narrative; palpable no matter the medium in which he represents his point of view be it the repatriation of the imagery in Mappelthorpe’s “The Black Book” using himself as the model, OREO cookies re-branded; by hand into NEGRO cookies or Sayles’ stunningly detailed graphite drawings; which figuratively pop off the paper In varying scales as well as dimensions, or sculptural assemblages with various artefacts from African daily life… His signature is Very there!
both:
SAYLES' "INTRASPECTIVE"
(curated by ERiC D. ClARK)
& AAAJIO'S "A bit, A prompt"
will run through May 25th MMXXIV in SETAREH's "SPOTLIGHT" & "MAIN ROOM"
respectively.
TiTlE:
"MiChAEl SAYlES AN "iNTR0SPECTiVE" diSCUSSi0N iN C0NVERSATi0N WiTh AlYA HATTA"
STARRiNG:
MiChAEl SAYlES & AlYA HATTA
WiTh:
Lee Plested (the gallery director)
James (the mounter)
Chloe (gallery assistanr)
Jezebel (The English Bulldog)
filmed/edited & directed by ERiC D. ClARk
N0N-NARRATIVE filMS MMXXIV
#fromdiscotohousewiththeclickofamouse #africanart #afropean #artfilm #graphitedrawings #diaspora #repatriation #culture #extended
Негізгі бет Фильм және анимация "MiChAEl SAYlES AN "iNTR0SPECTiVE" diSCUSSi0N iN C0NVERSATi0N WiTh AlYA HATTA" PART III
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