Jewel (2010)

• 83%
• 2010
• Hassan Khan

The work shows a luminescent fish in the deep waters of the Black sea. The image progressively transforms itself into a speaker, filmed in the midst of a dark space. Suddenly, the complete image of the scene appears when two men are seen dancing around an audio speaker. […] From this (one might say banal) scene was born the idea to produce a parallel experience where culture could emerge free from its relation to the real world. In this way, the cultural artifact — from clothing, to music, to poetry — is put in a position where the public can interact with it on its own terms and drawing its own connections. But then again, what is the impact of a microevent on the grand scale of history?