IFFR is offering a home-in-exile to the Visual Arts Festival Damascus, since it cannot take place in Syria this year.
In a face-to-face encounter between a PVM monitor and a pocket projector, the installation combines archival images, images from the current Syrian uprising and constructed images. Two moments in the history of contemporary Syria that echo the situation across all Arab countries: a memorable phone call between the Syrian cosmonaut Muhammed Faris, who was part of the Russian mission to the Mir Space Station, and the late president Hafez al-Assad, and the removal of the statue of Assad by the Syrian government to prevent its destruction by the demonstrators. Location: Ai Weiwei Café/Power Cut Installations, Thu 26 – Sat 4, 12:00 – 20:00.
