In the center of his first personal exhibition the artist Anri Sala presents his new film ‘Long Sorrow’ – ‘a requim for the end of the dreams’.
The famous free-jazz saxophoniste Jemeel Moondoc improvises an emotional piece, while hanging out of a window on the upper floor of a building in the outer skirts of Berlin, Germany.
By using different angles and views of the camera he seems to float in the air. the musician builds a cathedral of sounds with an improvisation based on an increasing suspense. Both a social documentation and a metaphor for art expression, ‘Long Sorrow’ is an architectural intervention about the natures sensations.
Anri Sala shows a selection of his recent art works in video and photography: a portrait of a pour man sitting between the arcade of the dome of Milan, a calm horse standing still on a road in Tirana, a nightly light and shadow game on the shore of the ocean and a spinning music instrument ‘cimbalo’ appearing
with the flashlight of a stroboscope and more...
The rooms of the ‘circolo filologico’ give Anri Sala’s art work the right flair.
In contrast to the speed of mainstream media imagery, Anri Sala's works are meditations on slowness, characterised by a near-total absence of camera movement which almost freezes scenes into paintings, and by an attention to seemingly unimportant details.