Evidence

Final week of group show "Evidence", curated by Seoyoung Kim. The show has been extended until this Saturday, April 9. Don't miss out!

at // Jeaming Cha - Autodidact

http://www.berlinartlink.com/2015/11/23/the-week-november-23-29-2015/

http://www.artmagazine.cc/content91330.html

artmagazine.cc - Evidence Curated by Seoyoung Kim: Kunstkritik, Auktionen, Kunstmessen, Tipps, Kunstszene, Programm

EVIDENCE is a video exhibition curated by Seoyoung Kim and will be on from November 27th at DNA Berlin
The exhibition deals with the historical and political concept of “evidence” but from a poetic and artistic point of view.

We proudly present you EVIDENCE at Curatorial Projects online. Don't miss out the exhibition.

http://curatorialprojects.weebly.com/art-exhibitions/evidence-at-dna-gallery-berlin-november-january-2015-16

For further details contact the gallery: http://www.dna-galerie.de/en/galerie-dna--contact.php?lang=DE

8 Video Artists Tackle Collective Memory and Hidden Truths | The Creators Project 'Evidence' is a new exhibition at DNA Berlin that reinterprets ideas of "history" through the lens of video art.

Jeamin Cha - video still - Autodidact - 2014

The Seoul-based artist and filmmaker, Jeamin Cha presents the Autodidact (2014), a film based on real events, which shows thirty years of the anguished efforts of a father to detect the clouded death of his son, as he was serving at Korean Army in 1984. The vital need of the father to shed light on the uncanny death of his son, leads him to taught himself forensic medicine and to use this knowledge as a weapon in “an endless battle against the shameless authorities”.

Mariam Ghani
A Brief History of Collapses
2011-2012
Two channel HD video installation, color, sound, 22 min, dimensions variable

Mariam Ghani found that the Friedricianum Museum in Kassel, Germany has architectural similarity to the palace Dar ul-Aman in Kabul, Afghanistan. The ruined Dar ul-Aman Palace, located on the periphery of the capital city of Afghanistan. The construction of Amanullah’s new city of Dar ul-Aman represented a radical break with traditional building design, materials, and techniques. While many Germans collaborated on the project, it was funded entirely by Afghan resources, without international assistance, since Amnullah’s reign represents the only period in Afghan history when the country subsisted without foreign aid. In “A Brief History of Collapses” (2012) she described these two buildings with two video channels in relation to architectural layout and details, but each represents its own narratives. Over the similarities and differences of architectural images, it can be shared with an aesthetic evidence of the collapse and restoration based on their historical, political and social stories.

‘Evidence’ at DNA Berlin Explores Truth in Art

Mariana Vassileva - videostill - Kronstadt - 2014

Mariana Vassileva represented historical story of Kronstadt, which is St. Petersburg's main seaport and century-old army-town near the head of Gulf of Finland in Russia and a ballet dancer from the St. Petersburg Mariinski Ballet. The main part of the footage for “Kronstadt” (2014), has been combined with studio sequences of the ballet dancer and images found on the internet, television advertisement traversing the urban and natural landscapes of Kronstadt. As a historical site for political struggle, to which Kronstadt's famous fortifications unrelentingly attest, the performing ballet and its aesthetic expression controvert the shooting cannon in her video. However, what if we rethink about this that Russia's current cultural climate of censorship and infringement of freedom, or consider that we comfort to passively sit back and read in a narrative mode?

Clemens Krauss - videostill - The Taster - 2013

Clemens Krauss found one of last living evidence of Adolf Hi**er's regime. In “The Taster” (2013), an old lady, named Margot Wölk (b. 1917, Berlin) is shown without any explanation about her testimony. She is eating something with casual manners. The viewer cannot deduce what she was in the reality from these images, but actually, she was taster for Adolf Hi**er at the end of World War II whose task was to prevent his death by poisoning. It seems to be obvious that many historically overshadowed things have often been forgotten and no one knows how they disappeared.