Zineb Sedira – Seafaring
Friday, October 30th, 2009
22 September – 4 November 2009
Sedira’s installation and talk offered a fascination insight into the range of work she has created as a video artist, generally focused on her family and cultural identity as an artist of Algerian descent spliting her time between London and Paris. The most successful element of the installation was the dyptich – Saphir – shot with a sublime cinemagraphic sensibility around the port of Algiers and focusing on two characters a woman and a man – one on land and the other at sea suggesting a link across the screen while maintaining the isolation and anticipation as they project their sense of expectation into the liminal space between land and sea. The lightboxes that populated the main space (see above) give a fractured impression of discarded ships on the coast of North-West Africa managed to beautify these deteriorating structures. Much of her engaging work is accessible via her portfolio website:
