Portrait of the West Bank
Portrait of the West Bank
December 22, 2015
Untitled, 2013. From the series 'A Colonial Landscape'
© Tobias Zielony, Courtesy: KOW Berlin
The title of the exhibition is based on the textual work by Philip Rizk entitled 'A Colonial Landscape'. At Tobias Zielony’s request, the German-Egyptian filmmaker and author Philip Rizk created a text to accompany the photographs that has been incorporated into the exhibition as a literary work in its own right. The text, written independently of the photographic works, addresses what is often merely subtly hinted at in Tobias Zielony’s photographs: namely, seeking out the stories of individual people inseparably linked with a form of neo-colonisation that individualises the region’s inhabitants through consumerism and loans, undermining any sense of political solidarity.
Philip Rizk, who works as a freelance filmmaker and author in Cairo, wrote the essay entitled '2011 is not 1968: A letter to an onlooker', which appeared in a number of publications. Between 2011 and 2013 he was an active member of the non-profit media collective Mosireen. In his latest feature film 'Barra fi l shara’' (Out on the Street), completed in 2015 in collaboration with Jasmina Metwaly, he addressed socio-critical issues such as corruption, police violence and workers’ rights in Egypt through nine non-professional actors. For his work at Fotohof the artist has turned his encounters with inhabitants of the West Bank and his own personal experiences, jotted down as diary entries, into a literary sound installation.
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Untitled, 2013. From the series 'A Colonial Landscape'
© Tobias Zielony, Courtesy: KOW Berlin
Untitled, 2013. From the series 'A Colonial Landscape'
© Tobias Zielony, Courtesy: KOW Berlin