Drachmas
Concurrently, the VCR enabled households to record their favorite shows, turning everyday people into accidental archivists and living rooms into home-grown archives. Having accessed these personal collections, Younis created over 40 small-scale models based on scenes from well-known dramas. This clinical reproduction of the scenes abstracts the relationship to specific social, political, cultural, and geographic references, while highlighting the studio as a place of modest means but prolific production.
Crew
Director | Ala Younis |
Producer | Ala Younis |
Commissioned by | Sharjah Art Foundation |
Produced by
Ala Younis
Ala Younis
Ala Younis, born in 1974 in Kuwait, is an artist. Research forms a big part of her practice, as do curating, collaboration, film and book projects. Her works have been shown at major biennials and exhibitions worldwide. In 2013 she curated Kuwait’s first national pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale. She is co-founder of the publishing initiative Kayfa ta and member of the Academy of Arts of the World in Cologne.
Filmography
2008 Nefertiti; 12 min. 2009 Six Days; 7 min. 2014 Chapters 1, 2 & 3 ‘from the impossibility of one page being like the other’; with Oraib Toukan, 3 min. 2016 Ex-Soviet Archives; 3 min. 2017 High Dam; video installation, 7 min., Forum Expanded 2018 2019 Drachmas
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2019