Lawrence Abu Hamdan
LAWRENCE ABU HAMDAN
cross border crimes & the witness-machine complex
September 8 – November 2, 2022
hamburg
Press text, Air Conditioning, 2022
This precisely factual approach, paired with his ability to capture less visible and tangible information, allows Lawrence Abu Hamdan to produce work that is extremely relevant today: he tackles the entanglements of power, technology, and violence, offering the viewer a visualization of his findings through the aesthetic formulation of an extended analysis. He often describes himself as an independent investigator, or Private Ear: in Air Conditioning (2022) he translates auditory data into a landscape of clouds and skies. Extracted from a major new commission that conveys the artist’s concept of “atmospheric violence” the work aggregates data from hundreds of individual documents, dispersed across multiple locations in the digital library of the United Nations, and that document the Israeli violations of the Lebanese airspace between 2006 and 2021.
Title text, Air Conditioning
Air Conditioning, 2022