Morehshin Allahyari : Zoba’ah: The Whirlwind / Jacolby Satterwhite: A Feeling of Healing - Announcements - E-Flux

The Museum of Contemporary Art (est. 1991 successful Roskilde) collects, researches, and exhibits ephemeral and time-based artworks. To amended big these formats and prosecute caller audiences, the depository became an itinerant museum successful 2021. This winter, the depository proudly presents an online accumulation by Morehshin Allahyari and an accumulation successful a shut-down nightclub by Jacolby Satterwhite.

Zoba’ah: The Whirlwind—a digital accumulation by Morehshin Allahyari
How tin we enactment successful creating the satellite we privation to spot and unrecorded in? To download creator Morehshin Allahyari’s sculpture Zoba’ah: The Whirlwind you person to hold to a acceptable of “terms and conditions” written by the creator and reply however you volition instrumentality tiny actions to alteration the satellite successful the bigger picture. In this way, you summon Zoba’ah, a carnal from the Islamic world, who ever brings astir abrupt change.

Download the work here. 

Based connected drawings of the jinn Zoba’ah from the 14th and 16th centuries, the Iranian-born creator Morehshin Allahyari has 3D modeled the sculpture Zoba’ah: The Whirlwind for the Museum of Contemporary Art’s virtual collection. In pre-Islamic and Islamic theology, a jinn is an intelligent tone known arsenic a shape-shifter created from smokeless fire, who exists successful a parallel world. As 1 of the astir almighty jinn, Zoba’ah, which translates arsenic “whirlwind,” brings contiguous alteration erstwhile summoned. Meaningful alteration is needed, Allahyari believes, successful this clip of fights for justice, wars, and urgent clime disasters. Therefore, she brings Zoba’ah into virtual space, which has represented a important nationalist arena successful caller years for transformative movements specified arsenic the existent Iranian Uprising led by women nether the hashtag #MahsaAmini, Arab Spring, anti-imperialist movements successful Hong Kong, the EndSARS uprising successful Nigeria, the worldwide Black Lives Matter protests, and the Me Too movement.

A Feeling of Healing by Jacolby Satterwhite
Via virtual reality, video installations, and neon works, the creator Jacolby Satterwhite shows america however creation and euphony tin beryllium utilized arsenic shields by marginalized persons against their attraction by society. Nightclubs are celebrated successful respective of the artist’s works arsenic places where, historically, a antithetic and freer beingness for Black and queer persons has flourished. For that reason, the accumulation A Feeling of Healing is staged successful an aged shut-down nightclub successful Roskilde arsenic an juncture to imagine possible safer spaces successful the town.

We determination done computer-generated worlds and oceanic coastal areas successful Satterwhite's imaginative works, tapping into sources ranging from Nigerian mythology, video games, popular culture, and creation history. The artist is known for creating mythical integer worlds, wherein avatars often move to physics rhythms - showing america modes of beingness arsenic some Black and queer persons successful effect to the surrounding world. Similarly, his mother, Patricia Satterwhite, who was diagnosed with schizophrenia, recovered bid successful the satellite of phantasy where, during periods of despair and joblessness, she designed household products successful the anticipation of patenting her ideas. Satterwhite has transformed his mother’s drawings into 3D animations arsenic a wide diagnostic successful his works, and her homemade recordings person go physics euphony made with the shaper Nick Weiss, providing the soundtrack to each the works, giving his mother’s calming dependable a divine and ubiquitous character.

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