{"id":3829,"date":"2021-09-18T09:56:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T09:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/?p=3829"},"modified":"2025-11-27T11:50:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T11:50:12","slug":"the-laughter-of-tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/index.php\/2021\/09\/18\/the-laughter-of-tears\/3829","title":{"rendered":"The Laughter of Tears"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Laughter of Tears
Solo Exhibition
Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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In Laughter of Tears<\/em> draws us into a field of affect that pulses between joy and grief, celebration and dissent. The exhibition brings attention to moments of transmission, those flickers of connection that occur when people laugh, weep, or encounter wonder together. These are states that move before, beyond, and between language that is untranslatable, yet deeply contagious. A shared intensity shimmers through a patchwork of memory, sensation, and fleeting revelation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Within this luminous field, Raqs gestures to a world where tears may no longer be only human, where sorrow and radiance coexist in a charged suspension. The glow that surrounds such states shelters gestures of defiance as much as it shadows the fragility of a life under watch, caught between coercion and resistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Symbols and stories populate the exhibition\u2019s terrain: an owl and a donkey emerge, as if arriving and departing at once. The figure of Tyll of Braunschweig plays tricks with mirrors and perception, while Nasreddin of Aksehir calmly faces the future while riding backward. Glimpses of histories\u2014unfinished, unruly\u2014surface at the edges of attention. And in images that murmur and shift, humour appears, like another creature in a strange bestiary, offering yet one more way to feel and know the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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See Also: Laughter of Tears (Brochure)<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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