aRe my children
are My parentssolo show
2022
Marwan
Amsterdam, NL
works and titles:
‘my parents are both good and bad’(2022) a kinetic sculpture with toilet papers hanging from the ceiling, rolling and unrolling with the
help of arduinos and stepper motor. With the sculpture there was also a song playing. Please visit this link for the song: tinyurl.com/karin1111
‘Directed reality in the waiting room’(2017) a performance and a photograph taken in the waiting room of the passport office
in Guayaquil-Ecuador. As I waited among other people, I asked some of the people to take a specific position for us to make a
choreography.
‘Four phrases from my notebook now here’ (2021)
Four phrases from my notebook that were placed in the lists of works in the room text
1. Can’t be the reason for you to love me, 2. I like to do things right because it shows that I’m capable, 3. I can’t be the reason for you to be a woman, 4. I like to do things wrong because it reminds me that I’m free
As a side-work I added more phrases from my notebook to all the exhibition pages. Separating the phrases from the object that contains them, allowing them to travel as ideas/thoughts and not as objects, jumped in different pages,
some that don’t belong to them. This work was not added in the work list, it existed as a try-out but it also gave an atmosphere to the show, since there was multiplicity of scattered paper and thoughts.
Video documentation of kinetic sculpture ‘my parents are both good and bad’