Rabih Mroué: my life always comes back to me like a lame dog
RABIH MROUE
My life always comes back to me like a lame dog
February 2 – April 6, 2023
hamburg
Top level - Works 2, RM MLACBTMLALD
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Exhibition Text 4 - RM MLACBTMLALD
In the series of cut-outs and collages entitled Reqa, Mroué borrows accent lighting stratagems form theatre, blacking-out images from newspapers clippings collected over several years, to put the focus on their captions. While the still visible words form an aesthetic of censorship, they first and foremost give back interpretation and imagination power to the viewer. Paradoxically, they also enforce a dawning realization that the – unseen – depicted events are unescapable realities.