Nour Shantout

Once Upon a Time: Untitled, 2017

Malerjacke, Holzgrundierung, Textilhärter

62cm x 73cm x 55cm 

 

The work is from the series Once Upon a Time which deals with the concept of labor, in a way inspired by techniques that are used in science museums. The work leaves space to imagine what the future holds, what are the new possibilities, beyond labor as we know, the engine of the neo-liberal society, it invites to think of labor, from a future perspective beyond homo- economicus.

How labor or more precisely working class will look after the upcoming new industrial revolution / cyber-age? What and if we have learned after the first industrial revolution? While in exploiting countries the working class is pushed to the global south, the question to be asked is will the working class disappear as well from all parts of the glob?

 

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My work focuses on subjugated heritage, counter-memory, counter-history, labor and alienation, from a post-colonial feminist perspective. I am interested in questioning the overly familiar aesthetics of museums as ‘heterotopias’ and learning sites. With the intention of doing so, I developed a specific way of creating my work through multiple layers, this includes research, field-work and learning -to unlearn- as a decolonial practice. After the Syrian revolution, I left my hometown Damascus. In the time since, I have lived in Beirut, Paris and Vienna. These three cities have specific art (making) traditions, challenges, and problems which interested me and it left an enormous impact on the way I think of political art-work and the aesthetics of politics. A significant part of my practice is undertaken in challenging geopolitical zones. For instance, I work as an artist and researcher in what are already over-researched places – such as Shatila, or in post-war Damascus and its suburbs. It is very difficult work that lends itself to tensions between myself and the participants, and I am sensitive to the lack of trust in the communities I seek to engage with. My work does not aim to overcome this tension, but to engage it. As such, I use Indigenous methodologies, such as narrative methodology, which aim to reinforce earning the participant's trust by facilitating the sharing of my own experiences and stories of Palestinian embroidery transmitted through my family via my grandmother.

Nour Shantout

ARTCARE - Rechte Bahngasse 30-32 | 1030 Wien

Work	#2246
Anfangsdatum	26/09/2024 09:37
Enddatum	30/12/2025 10:56
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