Associação Cultural Videobrasil

In addition to Gui Mohallem, three artists shortlisted at the 18^th International Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil are featuring in full-tilt parallel activities. Bakary Diallo (Mali), Dor Guez (Israel) and Sherman Ong (Malaysia) also appeared in the 2011 edition of the Southern Panoramas competitive show, and are now exhibiting at new shows. 

At the 17^th Festival, Bakary Diallo, with a background in literature and multimedia, had presented Les feuilles d’un temps, an intimate self-portrait based on his relationship with his mother. For his Anw Bara Kow show, he has invited Julien Creuzet to create pieces that maintain the emotional tone, made evident in the show’s title, “things from us,” open from 3.16 to 4.27. Paris’ Galerie Dohyanglee website contains additional information.

Film productions by Sherman Ong will be on show in Barcelona until 4.13 at the Casa Asia headquarters. This free-of-charge program revisits five feature and four short films by the artist, who gives his authorial take on documentary footage, revealing the universal symbolic and poetical dimension of highly specific social-cultural situations. The Casa Asia website features the full program, including synopses.

In turn, Israel’s Dor Guez takes his dual family roots – he descends from Palestinian Christians and Tunisian Jews – as a starting point from which to put forth his intimate reflections on historical, national, ethnic and identity issues. His Dor Guez: 40 days show, due from 4. 12 to 5.31 at the Mosaic Rooms (London), will feature previously unseen works, marking the beginning of the Disappearing Cities project, a wide-ranging scope of shows, meetings and screenings highlighting the destruction of Arab urban life in post-colonial age. Go to the Mosaic Rooms website for details, including a conversation between the artist and Achim Borchardt-Hume, the former Whitechapel Gallery chief curator.