Natascha Sadr Haghighian
...deeply _ to the notion that the _ world is _ to the observer...
(commited) (real) (external)
16 July – 12 September 2004
NATASHA SADR HAGHIGHIAN (Berlin) entitles her work with a play on words, based on a Henry Kissinger quotation. The exhibition is a new project by NATASHA SADR HAGHIGHIAN , in which the artist has literally converted the main exhibition space of Kunstverein München into a car-less street. On a vast signpost runs a double-chanel video projection. Taking the phenomenon of the Car Free Sunday during the 70s oil crisis as an example, the artist addresses the peculiar relationship between the global economical-political situation and everyday life. With Car Free Sunday the global crisis entered the everyday life of even the smallest kids by transforming the "forbidden zone" into a vivid playground. The street is a metaphor for this connection between our particular living and the global powers. Yet from the perspective of today she asks what happened to the idea of the street as a site where social and political changes could happen.
picture credits:
Natascha Sadr Haghighian, 2004. Installation views Kunstverein München e.V., 2004. Courtesy Kunstverein München e.V.