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Amusement dark: "black humor" in the installations of Adel Abidin
[...] it has been said, or something close to it: "black humor" is how New York Times art critic Carol Vogel described Abidin's 2007 installation, "Abidin Travels," in her review of the Nordic Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale. [...] it is precisely because Abidin positio...
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Published in: | Afterimage 2011-07, Vol.39 (1-2), p.58-59 |
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Summary: | [...] it has been said, or something close to it: "black humor" is how New York Times art critic Carol Vogel described Abidin's 2007 installation, "Abidin Travels," in her review of the Nordic Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale. [...] it is precisely because Abidin positions so many of these elements on the same interstitial playing field that his works complicate what is defined as "humor" - which, as Julia Kristeva points out in Revolution in Poetic Language (1984), is not always a prerequisite of laughter. [...] the fact that humor is not always present in Abidin's work makes his pieces more rewarding, as the artist tangibly resists perpetuating a trademark aesthetic. |
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ISSN: | 0300-7472 2578-8531 |