| Tarjama / TranslationMay 10, 2009- September 27, 2009
Tarjama / Translation maps an influential subset of recent work from the Middle East and Central Asia and their diasporas as a complex and dynamic undertaking. Rather than providing a panoramic and fleeting exposure to contemporary “Middle Eastern” and “Central Asian” art, Tarjama / Translation provides focus on selected artistic processes of cultural and critical translation.
Contemporary artists are perhaps the greatest translators. Their work transforms experience, perception, and thought into acts and materials of communication by scrutinizing everything at hand--materiality, culture, society, and beliefs. In Tarjama / Translation, language and textuality remain salient, but the exhibition includes approaches of visual translation for engaging with the complexities of our present era. Tarjama / Translation addresses the work of translation as multivalent, from the specificities of textual and visual manoeuvres to the larger sense of revealing fissures of the self, community, site and temporality. It focuses on how contemporary artists negotiate the formation of history influenced by continued states of dislocation and track newer dilemmas engendered by a globalized world saturated with the hyper-commercialism of media and popular culture.
Reviews of Tarjama / TranslationNew York Times
August 13, 2009 | | Holland Cotter | | "...But the shapelessness is to some degree deliberate. Why, the curators seem to ask, apart from marketing convenience, do we persist in packaging artists by their nationalities, as often as not fictional constructs, as if that were all we really needed to know about them? If the participants in this show have any single thing in common, it is something basic and broad: they all work in urban centers, some with complex historical links, in an intensively networked and interconnected world...." |
Recommendations of Tarjama / Translation| Location | | | Website | Website | | Address | Flushing Meadows Corona Park, New York City Building
Queens
NY, 11368
United States | | Local time | 5:19 pm | | Phone | 718 592 9700 | | Hours | Wed-Fri 10-5, Sat-Sun 12-5 | | | |
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