Le catalogue, conçu comme un manuel, de l'exposition immersive et multisensorielle de Shahryar Nashat au MASI Lugano et à l'Istituto Svizzero à Rome.
Shahryar Nashat explores the space between the real, tangible object and the incorporeal—be it a sensation, an idea, or a virtual image. His art is never assertive. Neither is this book, published to accompany the artist's new project for MASI Lugano and Istituto Svizzero in Rome. Fashioned as an instructional catalogue, instead of providing a key to interpreting the works, it leads the reader to a state of uncertainty and attraction, becoming an emotional composition. Following the artist's plea to forego thorough rational understanding, the book acquires a rhythm of its own, which goes in and out of the body and amplifies feeling. Nashat inserts his art in the pages of this manual, strips it of its aura, flaunts its nature as an object and describes step-by-step how to create it. Here are 17 chances to get it.
Les œuvres vidéo (mais aussi les sculptures, gravures, photographies et installations) de l'artiste suisse Shahryar Nashat (né à Téhéran en 1975, vit et travaille à Berlin) explorent principalement les rapports de désir et de domination dans une perspective historique, sociale et politique, au travers des différentes expressions de coercition de l'individualité que toute forme de pouvoir – politique, religieuse, militaire ou psychologique – met en action de façon plus au moins déclarée.
