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Runa Islam
Runa Islam, Be The First To See What You See As You See It, 2004
Vidéo Installation 16mm with sound, 7 minutes 30 seconds Courtesy Jay Jopling / White Cube, Londres
View of the exhibition, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse 2006
© Printemps de septembre, photo André Morin
Runa Islam, Be The First To See What You See As You See It, 2004
Vidéo installation 16mm with sound, 7 min 30 sec
Courtesy Jay Jopling / White Cube, Londres
View of the exhibition, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse 2006
© Printemps de septembre, photo André Morin
Runa Islam, Be The First To See What You See As You See It, 2004
Video installation 16mm with sound, 7 mn 30 sec
View of the exhibition, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse 2006
Courtesy Jay Jopling / White Cube, Londres
© Printemps de septembre, photo André Morin
Born in 1970 in Dhaka (Bangladesh), she lives in London.
Runa Islam is part of that young generation of artists which borrows for its own ends the deconstructivist approach to auteur films as practiced by its elders, while at the same time instilling them with emotional power. Keenly aware of viewers' perceptions, she plays with their sensations and their expectations without concealing the process from them. Her work operates on the borderline between the analytical and the affective, and her poetry is fuelled by their paradoxical relation.
Her video Be The First To See What You See As You See It was shown at the last Venice Biennale and is seen in Les Abattoirs. It explores the moment when consciousness envisages transgression and the shift to action. Breaks in tempo and background colour, the expressionless face, muddled places between showroom and tea room, crystal clear sound, slow motion gestures, and a certain formal idealization... all help to plunge us into a time-frame suspended between dream and reality: the time-frame of what is in-between.