Marfa’ in SOUTH SOUTH Veza

The Paperplane series seeks to address the status of image-as-matter in the current digital media environment, with its attendant ideology of dematerialisation and augmented reality. Yet, it is in the over saturation of digital images that Aoun foregrounds impressions of the printing machine itself, traces of pressure, residues of ink, and the physical folds of the paper, as an antidote against digital dematerialisation of every- day life, bringing the hardware into play: the body, the machine, and the paper.

Paola Yacoub’s Elegiac Landscapes, 2002 are photographs of the Lebanese South. These works tell a story of perception and can be read as an investigation of the gaze. As in her lecture-performance ‘What do I do?’ the artist asks whether you see a ‘battlefield’ or an ‘elegiac landscape’, leaving the answer up to the viewer.

This work is part of The Future In Small Doses: a series of photographs taken by the artist while he was traveling in southern China. Through noticing then capturing objects, places and forms around him that he isn’t accustomed to, the work highlights cultural differences and misunderstandings, giving us a glimpse of the quotidian strangeness of a post-in- dustrial future.

Rania Stephan’s video Threshold, 2018 will be on view as part of the South South Film program