Videos on Stage: Parallel Lines

If two parallel lines do not meet,
it is not because they cannot,
but because they have other things to do

Vladimir Nabokov

“Parallel Lines” is a compilation of videos about people, cases, segments, and dreams that are forced to live with the intensity of the pressure of mental occupation in every possible layer: political, territorial, spatial, psychological, economical, and social. This compilation intends to collect and discuss the perspectives, oppressions and realities of diverse positions through moving image. Each work invites the viewer to contemplate on parallel realities and mental occupations, perceived and interpreted in diverse layers.

(in alphabetic order)

Zarina Bhimji, Yellow Patch (2011) 29’43”
Lumen Travo Gallery

Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukáks, Prime Time Paradise (2004) 10’52”
AKINCI

Democracia Ser y Durar (2011) 18’30”
ADN Galeria

Mounir Fatmi, L’Histoire n’est pas à moi / History is not mine (2013) 5′
ADN Galeria

Hatice Güleryüz, The First Ones (2000) 2’17”
Rampa

Zeren Göktan, Aboveground (2009) 10′
CDA Projects

Juul Hondius, Brilliant Punitive Raids (2013) 10’18”
AKINCI

Shirazeh Houshiary, Veil (2005) 7’12”
Lisson Gallery

Jesper Just, Llano (2012) 7’17”
GALLERI NICOLAI WALLNER

Basim Magdy, Time Laughs Back at You Like a Sunken Ship, (2012), 9′ 31”
.artSümer

Jani Ruscica, Evolutions (2008) 18’20”
OTTO ZOO

Larissa Sansour, Nation Estate (2012) 9’00”
Lawrie Shabibi

Cui Xiuwen, Lady’s (2000), 5’15”
Galerie Dix9 Hélène Lacharmoise