Exhibition

OMER FAST
De Grote Boodschap (The Great Message)

Omer Fast, De Grote Boodschap (The Great Message), 2007, looped HD video
Courtesy of the artist

Opening: Friday, September 26, 2008, at 7 p.m.
Artist Talk: Friday, September 26, 2008, at 5 p.m.

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Curators: Ivana Bago & Antonia Majaca / Non-Alligned CF Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic is pleased to presnt the first solo exhibition by Omer Fast in Croatia opening on Friday, September 26, at 8 pm. Omer Fast (born in Jerusalem in 1972 and based in Berlin) is one of the most prominent artists of his generation in the international art scene. His work has been exhibited widely, most recently at the last Berlin Biennial, Whitney Biennial and the Manifesta 7 and is included in collections such as the Whitney and Guggenheim Museums in New York, MUMOK in Vienna, and Tate Modern in London.

Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic presents Fast’s 27-minute video De Grote Boodschap (The Great Message), in which the narration follows a series of everyday, but bizarre situations occurring among the tenants of an apartment building in Belgium: a flight attendant who returns home after an absurd occurrence on her last flight, an old woman who recalls the war, her caretaker in a conversation with her lover, and a secretive Arab who wants to rent the apartment in cash, six months in advance… Fast’s camera follows the characters like a hidden observer while the strange fragments of the story give hints of possible answers and of a reading of the whole narrative, indicating the time of collective paranoia, of the construction of a ‘war against terror’, and of media manipulation. As in his other works, here also the artist questions the ways in which our reality and its interpretation are influenced by memory, the media, and pop culture.

Preceding the opening of the exhibition at G-MK at 7 pm, the HDLU Club on Trg zrtava fasizma will host the artist talk by Omer Fast, in which he will present and discuss a selection of his works, including Looking Pretty for God (After GW), The Casting, CNN Concatenated and the Spielberg's List.

Duration of the exhibition: 27.9.2008 - 24.10.2008
Opening hours: TUE - FR, 12 a.m. - 7 p.m., SA, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Address: g-mk | galerija miroslav kraljevic, Subiceva 29, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia

Further information: www.g-mk.hr