Out on the Street - Variations

Jasmina Metwaly & Philip Rizk
Out on the Street - Variations

4 December, 2015 – 31 January, 2016
Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg

We are happy to invite you to an exhibition of the project of the 2015 German Pavillion at La Biennale di Venezia on Friday, December 4th in the presence of the artists Jasmina Metwaly and Philip Rizk.

1134/7758.jpg — Exhibition view, *Out on the Street - Variations*, Sfeir‑Semler Gallery, Hamburg, 2015

5:30 pm Filmscreening of Out on The Street (2015), 71 min at Kampnagel, Alabama Kino, Jarrestraße 20, 22303 Hamburg on December 4, 2015

followed by a conversation between the artists
& Florian Ebner, Museum Folkwang Essen and curator of German Pavillion, La Biennale di Venezia, 2015

1134/7760.jpg — Exhibition view, *Out on the Street - Variations*, Sfeir‑Semler Gallery, Hamburg, 2015

1134/7761.jpg — Jasmina Metwaly & Philip Rizk, *Draw it like this*, 2015, installation view, Sfeir‑Semler Gallery, Hamburg, 2015

1134/7759.jpg — Exhibition view, *Out on the Street - Variations*, Sfeir‑Semler Gallery, Hamburg, 2015

The film Out on the Street (2015) is about an acting workshop in a working-class Cairo neighborhood. 10 men recount episodes of exploitation, humiliation, and injustice; their stories center on the privatization of a factory but invariably extend to harassment by police and Egypt’s corrupt justice system.

1134/7726.jpg — Exhibition view, *Out on the Street - Variations*, Sfeir‑Semler Gallery, Hamburg, 2015

1056/7378.jpeg — Jasmina Metwaly & Philip Rizk, *Out on the Street*, 2015
HD film, QuickTime ProRes, colour, sound, arabic with english subtitles (also exists with spanish and french subtitles), film still, 71 min, Ed. 5 + 2 AP

1056/7381.jpeg — Jasmina Metwaly & Philip Rizk, *Out on the Street*, 2015
HD film, QuickTime ProRes, colour, sound, arabic with english subtitles (also exists with spanish and french subtitles), film still, 71 min, Ed. 5 + 2 AP

1056/7383.jpeg — Jasmina Metwaly & Philip Rizk, *Out on the Street*, 2015
HD film, QuickTime ProRes, colour, sound, arabic with english subtitles (also exists with spanish and french subtitles), film still, 71 min, Ed. 5 + 2 AP

1056/7385.jpeg — Jasmina Metwaly & Philip Rizk, *Out on the Street*, 2015
HD film, QuickTime ProRes, colour, sound, arabic with english subtitles (also exists with spanish and french subtitles), film still, 71 min, Ed. 5 + 2 AP

1056/7387.jpeg — Jasmina Metwaly & Philip Rizk, *Out on the Street*, 2015
HD film, QuickTime ProRes, colour, sound, arabic with english subtitles (also exists with spanish and french subtitles), film still, 71 min, Ed. 5 + 2 AP

1056/7388.jpeg — Jasmina Metwaly & Philip Rizk, *Out on the Street*, 2015
HD film, QuickTime ProRes, colour, sound, arabic with english subtitles (also exists with spanish and french subtitles), film still, 71 min, Ed. 5 + 2 AP

1056/7390.jpeg — Jasmina Metwaly & Philip Rizk, *Out on the Street*, 2015
HD film, QuickTime ProRes, colour, sound, arabic with english subtitles (also exists with spanish and french subtitles), film still, 71 min, Ed. 5 + 2 AP

The workers then reenact these scenarios, creating a biting exposé of worker conditions ever more effective for the immediacy of the one-room setting, which affirms itself—in the real time of the workshop—as a momentary haven from a life of precariousness.

1133/7766.jpg — Jasmina Metwaly & Philip Rizk, *Draw it like this, I-V*, 2015
archival ink orint on paper, 84.1 ⁠× ⁠118.9 ⁠⁠cm, Ed. 5 + 2 AP

1133/7763.jpg — Jasmina Metwaly & Philip Rizk, *Draw it like this, I-V*, 2015
archival ink orint on paper, 84.1 ⁠× ⁠118.9 ⁠⁠cm, Ed. 5 + 2 AP

Jasmina Metwaly & Philip Rizk Out on the Street - Variations

Jasmina Metwaly & Philip Rizk
Out on the Street - Variations