Text by Kathleen Weyts
GLEAN invited artist Hamedine Kane to contribute to this issue as a Guest Editor, inviting two writers and introducing the work of Brahim Tall. Tall’s work explores the politics and expression of identity, nightlife and underground culture. He combines photography with video, installation and performance. In his latest project, Tukuleur, he instructs dancer Stanley Ollivier to strike poses that directly invoke iconography from art history, set against a collaged backdrop of photographs taken in Belgium, Senegal and New York.
Read The Body — Brahim Tall on his work
We often think of the camera as a neutral tool, but pointing a camera at someone is actually an act of aggression. Form and imagery influence our culture and the way we look. How we ‘read’ bodies is unconsciously controlled by how they are represented. That’s not a trivial issue, and, in my opinion, it’s one that is still underexplored. Especially in cinema, it is hardly ever seriously reflected upon. There, the emphasis is very much on the narrative, and there is a kind of status quo; y (…)
