Anri Sala

by Godfrey, Mark; Obrist, Hans Ulrich; Gillick, Liam

• ISBN13: 9780714845272
• ISBN10: 0714845272
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-11-14
• Publisher: Phaidon Press

Summary

Anri Sala's video "Intervista" (1998) begins with the artist moving house andinding an old 16 mm film in a box. On it he can see an interview with aoung woman, whom he recognizes as his mother, being interviewed for stateelevision in their native Albania. Without the sound reel the sense of thenterview is lost, so Sala enlists lip-readers to restore the missing words.hen he shows the subtitled film to his mother, she reacts to the words ofer younger self with disbelief - could she really have spouted the emptyhetoric the ruling party? When the film cuts to a shot of her smiling besidehe party leaders, the video shows her lifting a hand to her mouth instonishment, or perhaps recognition. Raised in Albania, Sala relocated toaris to attend the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs, and movedo Berlin in 2003. In a relatively short time, he has developed a vision thatddresses the issues of a posthistorical world with a haunting simplicityhat transcends cultures and borders.;While his work's technical simplicityecalls straight documentary practices, its basic concerns - light and

Author Biography

Mark Godfrey teaches at The Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. He has written catalogue essays on Fiona Tan, Tacita Dean and Matthew Buckingham, and he contributes regularly to Artforum, Frieze and October. In 2002 he curated an exhibition at Camden Arts Centre on the work of Douglas Huebler.

Hans Ulrich Obrist is Co-Director of Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects at the Serpentine Gallery, London. He has been co-curator of such international biennials as Manifesta 1 (Rotterdam, 1996), the 50th Venice Biennale (2003) and the 2nd Guangzhou Biennale (2005). Currently Inviato Speciale of Domus magazine, Obrist has also edited more than sixty books, including Hans Ulrich Obrist Interviews, Volume 1 (2003) and do it (2005).

Liam Gillick is an artist based in London and New York, whose work has received widespread acclaim, including a 2002 nomination for the Turner Prize.