New Acid
Basim Magdy
.artSümer, Istanbul
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- Title
- New Acid
- Gallery
- .artSümer, Istanbul
- Year
- 2019
- Duration
- 14 min 18 s
- Format & Technical
Super 16mm and computer generated text messages transferred to Full HD
Commissioned by La Kunsthalle Mulhouse, the World Premiere of 'New Acid' was in the Piazza Grande section of Locarno Film Festival in front of an audience of 8000 people.
Film programmer, Julian Ross, wrote: “Basim Magdy’s latest short imagines a nostalgia-tinged reality, a time on earth after humans, where animals and bots communicate through emoji-filled text messages. The zany language they speak might lead us astray, but we can detect a certain yearning for interaction. Enlightened through sleep deprivation, these beings find themselves trapped − but where? In a zoo or a stream of data?”
In New Acid, 2019, several animals chat via text messages. Between their mundane exchanges of words, conflict and rivalry emerge. Their mirrored physical appearance hints to entrapment inside a reality T.V. show. Is tradition an alter ego of racism? What about nostalgia and nationalism? Have they finally become human?
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Selected solo exhibitions: Röda Sten Konsthall, Gothenburg, M HKA, Antwerp; MAAT Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon; La Kunsthalle Mulhouse, France; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; MAXXI, Rome; Jeu de Paume, Paris; CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux; Deutsche Bank KunstHalle, Berlin; Arnolfini, Bristol. Group exhibitions: MoMA, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Castello di Rivoli, Torino, New Museum Triennial, New York; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; La Biennale de Montreal; MEDIACITY Seoul Biennial; 13th Istanbul Biennial; Sharjah Biennial 11; La Triennale: Intense Proximity, Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
Winner of the Abraaj Art Prize, New:Vision Award, CPH:DOX Film Festival, Copenhagen and the Experimental Award at the Curtas Vila do Conde – International Film Festival, Portugal. He is Deutsche Bank’s 2016 Artist of the Year. Selected screenings include Tate Modern, Locarno Film Festival, New York Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, ICA London.
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.artSümer
- Address
- Piyalepaşa Bulvarı, Polat Piyalepaşa Istanbul, N 32A, Beyoğlu 34440, Istanbul, Turkey
- Phone
- 90(532)2336300
- Website
- www.artsumer.com
.artSümer, founded by Asli Sumer in Istanbul, 2005, focuses on showcasing cutting-edge contemporary art by local and international artists. The gallery is known for introducing emerging artists most of whom have held their first shows here. Represented artists in the early-mid stages of their career path have diverse practices including painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, photography, video and new media. Quite unique and varied from each other’s practices, the works are playful, poetic and thoughtprovoking which is a conceptual common ground defining the gallery’s character.