Overview

Sharjah Art Foundation is pleased to collaborate with London’s V&A on the presentation of a film by Artist Rania Stephan and sound works by Daniel Garcia and Jesse Gelaznik as part of Friday Late: Record, Reframe, Resist on 30 November. Held alongside the V&A’s exhibition Light from the Middle East: New Photography, this late night event includes film screenings, live music, installations, workshops and talks.

Lebanese Filmmaker Rania Stephan’s The Three Disappearances of Soad Hosni (2011, 70 minutes) was Co-comissioned by SAF for the 2011 Sharjah Biennial 10, where it was awarded the Artist Prize. This work explores the tragic destiny of iconic Egyptian actress Soad Hosni through a montage of clips from her vast repertoire of films. These images and sounds are creatively pieced together by Stephan to narrate a moving portrait of the legendary star, weaving a biographical documentary about the actress’ life and death out of the fiction that immortalised her. The film is an homage to a bygone era of Egyptian cinema and a meditation on the constantly evolving image of the modern Arab woman, which Hosni once embodied.

The film screening will be preceded by a 20 minute Q&A between Stephan and Omar Kholeif, UK-based Writer and Curator at FACT, Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, Liverpool. The talk will begin at 7:30 pm. Both the screening and the talk will take place in the Hochhauser auditorium.

Ten sound works by Daniel Garcia and Jesse Gelaznik will also be presented this evening. For Meditations on Inertia, and other Low Key Qualities, by PWR&$$$ (Power and Wealth) (10 audio tracks, 27 minutes, on loop), Daniel Garcia and Jesse Gelaznik engaged in an electronic collaboration across two continents to create live recordings and samples that were originally commissioned for Sharjah Biennial 10. The track listing includes such titles as, dirty bonfire, we will be ghosts, and come all ye, all of which can be heard in the corridor leading to the photography gallery.

Friday Late: Record, Reframe, Resist is part of the V&A’s series of late night events held on the 30th of every month from 6:30 – 10:00 pm. This event invites attendees to challenge their perspectives and step into a world of subversion and rebellion, immersing themselves in an evening of exciting new art commissions, satirical film, live music and more.