Concept of the Artist

Anri Sala employs moving images and their soundtracks to probe historical ruptures and failures of language. He explores non-verbal modes of expression through narratives or ideas that can be shared through music or pictures. This distance from a ?logical?, direct, language-based understanding, opens the door to multiple perspectives and interpretations. His work encompasses video installations, sculptures, photographs, performances and movie scores. In contrast with traditional cinema, his distinctive use of film challenges the supremacy of the image, allowing sound and musical scores to serve as important narrative cues. The music in his practice speaks to history and memory; it brings together the past, present, and future of the viewer into a single filmic experience. This ?continuous present” found in Sala?s work has the effect of grounding the audience in a specific moment rather than allowing them to feel projected into the illusion of what they see. His films are presented in a wide range of immersive spaces that must be experienced with the whole body, in modified environments with careful lighting and sound design that stimulate a visceral experience of the architecture. By creating this state of awareness, the artist urges us to reconsider the relationship of our own space and time to the location and historical moment depicted in the films ?an exercise in civil resistance with profound political implications.
Source :http://www.kurimanzutto.com/en/artists/anri-sala

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