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National Museum of African Art  Search this
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YouTube Videos
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2016-05-03T17:16:43.000Z
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1,409
Video Title:
Moataz Nasr’s The Water (excerpt)
Description:
Time is tied closely to identity in this study of self and circumstance. Concerned by the hardships of his fellow Egyptians under the government of Hosni Mubarak in the years leading up to the Arab Spring, Moataz Nasr spent six months filming the reflections of his compatriots in street puddles. The hold of these men, women, and children on time appears tenuous: they materialize only briefly before a boot relentlessly stomps into the water. The distorting, fragmenting, and transforming images suggest we are all in flux, and that our circumstances might outweigh our individual capacities to create stability. Nasr’s images seem to ask viewers if the fragility of human time is trampled and trodden by the forces of political time, or if the quivering, shimmering faces are a looking glass that mediates and transcends time?
Video Duration:
37 sec
YouTube Category:
Education  Search this
Topic:
Art, African  Search this
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