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PRESS (Selection)


taz 2023

https://taz.de/Die-Kunst-der-Woche/!5963682/

Ist es das Licht, die Sonne Kaliforniens, was Los Angeles zu einem Sehnsuchtsort macht? Die Weite? Der Mythos von Freiheit? Die „Traumfabrik“ Hollywood? Die Vergangenheit, in der die Westküstenstadt Fluchtpunkt für Verfolgte wurde? Oder die global vernetzte Gegenwart? Wie die Antwort der Menschen lautet, die der Künstler Siska für seine Serie „Merch, Merch, Merch …“ fotografiert hat, darüber kann man maximal spekulieren. Siska hat sie in Berlin aufgenommen, heimlich und von hinten, im Bus, auf der Straße, im Einkaufszentrum. Allesamt tragen sie Oberteile, auf denen dick der Schriftzug „Los Angeles“ steht.

Die Fotografien wiederum wurden auf weiße T-Shirts gedruckt und hängen nun in der Ausstellung „Räume mit Aussicht“ im Haus Kunst Mitte. Es ist einer von zwei Beiträgen Siskas zu der Schau, die Arbeiten von Bildenden Künst­le­r*in­nen ­versammelt, die im Jahr 2022 als ­Sti­­pendia­t*in­nen in der Villa Aurora waren.

Arteeast 2023

https://arteeast.org/programs/siska/

It is common for me to explore several themes in my work, including memory, exile, displacement, trauma, identity, and politics. From these themes, I create visual narratives. I often apply film language and cinematic codes to activate an archive. Artistically, I am not interested in treating archive footage. Instead of the image itself, I might be more drawn to its materiality and the history it exhibits. Providing insight into how parts of history can be erased when they are willfully overlooked. It is visible in my film works that I am interested in the physicality of analog film and the metamorphosis of an image. What this image means in the present-day and how it impacts our lives today. This provides me with the freedom to experiment with alternative forms of storytelling and my own biography. I consider that the theme of archives has played a significant role in the post-civil war history of Lebanese art as a whole. This is because we don’t have archival institutions, so archives are scattered around the country and belong more to private institutions than to public ones. We must develop our own methods of digging and utilize our own tools and resources in order to conduct research. This results in archives becoming more of a discovery, similar to archeology in Lebanese contexts. As I observe a contemporary crisis or situation, like the port explosion, for example, my first instinct is to dig deep into the past to discover a link, a latent logic. Perhaps it is more for myself and my understanding of what has happened and continues to happen.


taz archive

https://taz.de/!5218221/
https://taz.de/Farben-fuer-Bad-Gastein/!307507/

berlinartlink

https://www.berlinartlink.com/2016/12/19/pierwoss-siska/


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