SITE
Fondouk Batista
ARTWORK
LUMINOUS VANISHING
1-channel side projection, manipulated historic slides
The starting point for my artwork “Luminous Vanishing” were old slides that I found. These slides were photographed by a German couple traveling to Djerba and Tunis during the 1970s. During my stay in Houmt Souk, I started to modify the picture. physically and irreversible. I wanted to leave traces, erase memories, and look for what might be hidden in the material.
ARTIST STATEMENT
For SEE DJERBA, I was able to participate as an artist. During the week I was free to explore the new surrounding, meeting new people, and starting to work on my own project. The week I had (only the one before the festival) was too short for all the possibilities which were offered (talks, workshops, etc.). My intent was to realize a site-specific work in Djerba that reflects my impressions of exploring a new and unfamiliar space. During my stay I started a new way for me to work with the found photographic material, furthermore, it is my first work with a diascope.
In the past two years, I have had the opportunity to visit Tunisia several times, working there as an artist and exhibiting my artworks. With the exhibition project FLUX at the Goethe-Institute Tunis in 2015, I learned how energetic and positive co-operation with Tunisians can be. My intent was to discover a place with my artistic view, to implement it in my work and to present it in the public space.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2017 Bremen (de), REGARDING: BUNKERS
2017 Brest (fr), DOUBLE BANDE
2017 Bremen (de), DIALOGIC RESEARCH
2016 Bremen (de), ARTIST AS INDEPENDENT PUBLISHERS
2015 Hildesheim (de), LICHTUNGEN
2015 Tunis (tn), FLUX
DEVELOPEMENT
Since 2012 Bremen (de), University of the Arts : Studies of Fine Arts
2006 2009 Marburg (de), Apprenticeship as a Photographer
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FEATURED IMAGE
Sara Foerster. SEE DJERBA 2017 Houmt Souk. Photo: Sara Foerster