Transart Alumnus, Abi Tariq, in Exhibition M-bodi-ment-A

Image: Abi Tariq, Into ~ Balance, 2015/2020, film still (detail)

M-bodi-ment-A

Claudia Larissa Artz, Arnold Dreyblatt, Noa Eshkol, Andrea Morein, Abi Tariq , Ohad Naharin/Bat Sheva Dance Co., Ulrich Werner, Carola Willbrand, Reiko Yamaguchi.
Curated by Andrea Morein, member of Deutscher Künstlerbund

Deutscher Künstlerbund
September 17, 2021 — November 19, 2021

https://www.kuenstlerbund.de/english/projects/projects-since-2011/2021_mbodimenta.html

The group exhibition "M-bodi-ment-A" focusses on Embodied Arts. It presents art works that are informed by immediacy, physical gestures, intuition, and the very moment of creation in which the artists bring themselves in as a whole. The exhibited works speak directly to their viewers through their presence. They manifest the immediate unity of artist, "embodied" artistic process and statement – either in the form of a drawing, a piece of music, a video work, an object or a spatial installation.

Abi Tariq (born 1990 in Karachi, PK) reflects in their work on the possibilities for using performance to highlight or shift hierarchical structures. Tariq's performances refer to various spatial situations like public spaces in Paris or private homes, examining them in terms of their connections to language, culture and power. In the video work Into ~ Balance (2015/2020) the artist uses calm, balanced movements of the body to explore the relationship between their own outline and the changing colours of the video space. In the process, the form of the body transforms gradually into an ornamental abstraction overlapping both visually and acoustically with the quietly flowing sounds.