Alex Rizkalla
Australia
Les Tricoteuse de Paris
1997

Muhr has produced two installations which are about time and the proportion of things. The first installation incorporates a video projection of animated furniture, the second installation is a series of little people, perfectly sculpted and arranged behind a glass fence. . . to shape fingernails and even the life line of a person . . . by working with detail, it is possible to slow down and catch a greater concentration . . . a compact viewing and thinking, a matter of proportions.

"The most exciting space for an artist is between the action and the thought. It is to deal with resistance's and virtuosity, and finding ways, invent and explore. These works I will show in h. . . the proportions of things".

BM

Rizkalla uses object in their configuration to produce memory triggers, narratives and stories. His work is concerned with the act of reading, the art of investigation and a multiplicity of meanings which may stem from a single object. In his installation Rizkalla references 'Les Tricoteuse de Paris'(The Knitting Women of Paris. These were women representatives of the people in the general assembly after the French Revolution. They were front row spectators in beheadings, and continued to knit through all the proceedings.

On T.V
I watched an artist
perform with his nose
I do not know
if
he was a poor pianist
or a poor man
I am inclined to think
that this man
simply wants to eat.

AR

Alex Rizkalla, . . .we all fall down, detail, projection, various media, 1997.Also see review of Alex Rizkalla's "...we all fall down ... & The Accursed Share

Birgitta Muhr, Two Installations, b/w video, 1997 (mov file with audio 223k, file requires Quicktime plugin).

Birgitta Muhr, Leute, hobby plastic, 1 of 12, 12cm, 1996