Adel Abidin
Cover-up!, 2014
One-channel video installation
Duration: 00'04'25 min (seamless loop)
Edition 1 of 5 + AP
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Cover-Up was produced in August 2014 as part of a larger commission from the annual Flow Festival, Helsinki where Abidin was named Artist of the Year. Displayed on two screens...
Cover-Up was produced in August 2014 as part of a larger commission from the annual Flow Festival, Helsinki where Abidin was named Artist of the Year. Displayed on two screens back to back, Cover-Up is again a video installation of a seductive figure in close up. Filmed in black and white, the project replicates the iconic image of Marilyn Monroe in a white dress standing above a subway grating, a scene from the 1955 film The Seven Year Itch. Replacing Monroe with an Arab man in a ‘Dishdasha’, Abidin plays with our assumptions on attractiveness, the art of seduction and propriety. The title, which can be read in a number of ways, comments on the hypocrisy rife in contemporary society, mistakes and bad decisions that are hidden, but hinting that their exposure is all too easy.
Exhibitions
Oslo Central Station, (11 Aug - 4 Sep, 2016)
Art Dubai Contemporary, UAE (2015)
Flow Festival, Helsinki (2014)
Cover-Up!, Sultan Gallery, Kuwait (2014)
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