Nahnou
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Exhibition design, TATE Britain, Goodison Room, open until 7 September 2008
Design: Oliver Klimpel, Silke Klinnert, Axel Feldmann
Curated by Felicity Allen, with contributions by students from London and Damascus, artist Faisal Abdu'Allah, filmmaker Trevor Mathison
Photographs: Adam Laycock
The exhibition Nahnou - Together Now tries to trace back influences and references of art movements and art production in the Middle East with a focus on Syria and Jordan, and the connections to other artist and institutions. In an exchange project students from London experienced an unknown urban and cultural environment - these impressions formed a starting point for the creation of numerous pieces of artwork or writing. The exhibition design created a distinctive, playful and yet informal and functional environment by using scrolls of grey foam for timeline, projection background and seating - commenting on the ongoing nature of the project, forming a functional sculpture that connected the planes of floor and walls. The work-in-progress rhetoric of the show was further underlined by the decision for a low-key and flexible approach for the complex time-line wall featuring a carefully selected rage of paper sheets in various colours, different pins and strings. Quotes of students were shown in handwriting straight on the wall.