5 .gifs/for the meantime
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Kleine Humboldt Galerie Berlin
KONTINUUM : something between Archive and Project Space
_Wiliče_ is a covid collaboration between Barbara Knezevic and Alice Rekab.
These digital drawings and .gifs are developed through a correspondence practice exploring our ancestors, fragments, and monuments. Through our work together we explore shared experiences of our respective migrant heritage and its impact on our perspectives as artists. Barbara Knezevic was born in Australia to post World War II immigrant Polish and Yugoslav families, and is now living and working in Ireland. Alice Rekab is of mixed Irish, Syrian and Sierra Leonean descent, the name Rekab is an Anglicisation of Al Rikabi (الركابي).
As unreliable narrators of multiple origins it is from this starting point that we propose a sequence of 5 x .gif moving images, designed to be programed between other works or shown in sequence as part of an interval. Fitting somewhere in between, these moving images, like the images presented in our portfolio, take their origins from imaginary topographies, partisan monuments, ancient fragments of domestic life and Irish, Syrian, Serbian, Croatian and West African folktales ( real or fabricated). _Wiliče_ is interested in the creative interpretation of provenance, tradition, and the other stories we tell ourselves about who we are, where we come from and where we are going.
https://www.somethingbetween.org/alice-rekab-barbara-knezevic