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-date_start: '05-10-2019 16:27'
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+date: '05-09-2019 16:27'
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date_end: '11-10-2019 16:27'
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-title: 'Nour El Saleh ''Exquisite Farces'''
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-media_order: 'Inhabited Props in a Box, 2018.jpeg,Wrong Side of the Table, 2019.jpg'
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+lieux: '12th floor, '
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+title: 'Exquisite Farces, '
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+artistes: ' Nour El Saleh'
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+media_order: '(Not so) Musical Chairs, 2018_ Wrong Side of the Table, 2019_ The Puppeteer of Karakas, 2019.jpeg,Wrong Side of the Table, 2019.jpg,Detail of Wrong Side of the Table, 2019.jpg,A Grand Jester, 2019.jpeg,Dance Monkey, Dance!, 2019.jpg,Inhabited Props in a Box, 2018.jpeg,Detail of Inhabited Props in a Box, 2018.jpg,Four Times as Big, Twice as Small, 2018.jpg,Detail of Four Times as Big, Twice as Small, 2018.jpg'
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@@ -13,6 +15,7 @@ curatorial and cultural mediation outfit that are helping usher in a new way for
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inhabit and make use of the rapidly transforming architecture of an austere London. It
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also marks her first foray into the wider world following on from three-years of study at
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The Slade School of Fine Art, London.
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El Saleh’s approach dismisses preparatory drawings; lines and forms are imagined,
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physicalised and placed impulsively to prompt new narrative possibilities. She has
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worked towards the creation of a satirical language to communicate an uncanny rendition
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@@ -21,16 +24,17 @@ impermanent residents, El Saleh’s comfort was in a constant state of flux, and
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work she grapples with a sense of belonging; deceivingly familiar spaces are tensed with
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anguish and actors, and through the use of theatrical and comical imagery, the artist
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reconciles these two forces.
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-The Puppeteer of Karakas evokes the memory of a man playing with puppets in the street
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+_The Puppeteer of Karakas_ evokes the memory of a man playing with puppets in the street
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where El Saleh lives in Beirut. Here, the puppeteer is disguised and plays with four
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eccentric real-life marionettes. Any hint that they might fall into a Mickey Sabbath-like
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world of destitution and depravity is reframed with a sense of homeliness; checkered floor
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tiles and floral wallpaper, which feature as a recurrent backdrop across El Saleh’s scenes.
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Inserting small characters in the eyes and heads of certain protagonists, El Saleh seems
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to play with the apparent roles, and who in fact conducts the scene. A mise en abyme
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-occurs, the Puppeteer of Karakas becomes puppeteered, and equally, the motherly figure
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+occurs, the _Puppeteer of Karakas_ becomes puppeteered, and equally, the motherly figure
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of Wrong Side of The Table loses her intimidating aura, turning into a vessel, a further
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-prop in the theatre of El Saleh’s mind. Wrong Side of the Table depicts a juxtaposition
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+prop in the theatre of El Saleh’s mind. _Wrong Side of the Table_ depicts a juxtaposition
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between a naked bust-figure, sitting at the table provocatively, acting out for the sake of
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being rewarded with attention, which is at odds with a heavily cloaked figure under the
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table, an elderly child, hidden out of view, coaxing attention through her aloofness.
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@@ -44,4 +48,4 @@ anything untoward; and in this lay the charm of El Saleh’s world. Despite the
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her depictions, on further inspection there lies a familiarity and intimate feeling of the
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‘known’. Representation dissolves, El Saleh seems to abolish the stage, the auditorium
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and have spectators sit within the composition. In an Artaud-esque manner, actors are
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-seen to be passive and neutral, while masks, puppets and sock marionnettes rule the set.
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+seen to be passive and neutral, while masks, puppets and sock marionnettes rule the set.
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