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31 Days
Shown at: ‘The Laughter of Tears’, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany\u00a0(2021) | ‘The Pandemic Circle’, Stamps Gallery, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, Expo Chicago \u2013 online (2020)<\/a>\u00a0| ‘CC: World’, Haus der Kulturen der Welt- online, Berlin (2020)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Video with calligraphy, pixels, sound
Duration, 17’45<\/em>” <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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A conversation in images, missives to selves and world, mood swings in lockdown and a share in the planet\u2019s lucid dreams during a global pandemic. Gleaned from a month’s worth of the habit, within Raqs, of a regular chatter, the daily back and forth of things seen, heard, read and sensed between three people across decades. From the dawn of new feelings to the obstinate sediment of images that don\u2019t let themselves be unseen. Disappearing ephemera, history in the making, the scene that unfolds in the corner of the eye – everything, and nothing. Real, imagined, and everywhere in between. Notes of pictures that whisper, speak in tongues, and sometimes leap, from hibernation to upheaval. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To: me
Cc: All
A chicken farm bites the edge of a forest.\u00a0
A factory worker buys duck soup.\u00a0
A nurse falls asleep after three continuous shifts.\u00a0
An elephant gets lost in a village.\u00a0
A pregnant migrant feels feverish.\u00a0
One gram of an un-living thing multiplies across thousands of bodies.\u00a0
-from the text of the handwritten film, ’31 Days’ (2020)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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