The artist Natascha Süder Happel, the man explained to the German Biennale pavilion in Venice to the deportation prison. Your theme of Europe dealing with Refugees.
The massive pillars lined the main portal of the German pavilion remains closed. Only two side entrances lead to the interior, the one-meter-high wall made of sprayed concrete in two halves shares. From one side it looks like a dam. Little water runs out of Latex channels through a pebble field. Beyond the wall is a metal rises scaffold. From the speakers, voices, music, and shrill sounds.
“Tribute to whistle” is the sound installation. It is reminiscent of the widely used method of Refugees, to warn with whistles prior to Deportation attempts by the police. In a side room of the pavilion Süder Happel, the man has built a sculpture made of stacked vegetable crates. It rejects, as happened to a poster Board with a tomatoes advertising. The message of the artist is clear: Europe is sealing itself off.
Metaphor of the foreclosure
Germany’s Biennale pavilion is a metaphor of the foreclosure? A political Statement that is, in the populist-ruled Italy. And also in the case of an Advance appearance at the Biennale, the artist of their line remains true. She quoted Rosa Luxemburg’s views on the accumulation of capital. The questions of the journalists they met with prepared Statements, it would need a lot of answers. Again, the artist hides her face behind a mask out of paper mache and an actress speak for themselves. Whose Art Name: Helene Acquiescence.
The artist Natascha Süder-Happel-man (right) and her spokeswoman Helene acquiescence in Venice
Months ago indicated that Süder Happel’s Biennale-would circles contribution to the issues of Migration. On the Homepage of the German pavilion, which is curated this year by Franciska Zólyom, you could watch Videos. In a, the artist runs with the stone mask on the head on Sunny village roads in Bavaria and Baden-Wuerttemberg and looks back on the so-called “anchor centres”. The name stands for “center for arrival, decision Feedback”. Such deportation prisons in Germany since 2018. In it, the Refugees want to come until they are distributed in communities or in their country of origin will be deported. In a second Video, she is in Puglia huge fields of Tomatoes, on which the summer migrants from Africa under inhumane conditions and for a pittance to toil. In a third Film, it’s about the legal tug-of-war to a German refugee ship which was detained in an Italian port.
Clear Message
For their biennial Performance, including their public appearances, has the artist with a fancy name. Instead of Natascha Sadr Haghighian called Natasha Süder – Happel-man “because it sounds German!” Your biography, you obfuscated. It is known: Süder Happel husband is from Iran and teaches sculpture at the University of art in Bremen.
The German pavilion at the art Biennale focuses on the foreclosure of Europe
The monumental architecture of 1938, the Nazis transformed German pavilion have been processed prior to the Süder Happel man of many artists. Hans Haacke about hacked, in 1993, the ground. With Gregor Schneider, Christoph Schlingensief and Anne Imhof three German won since 2001, with a Golden lion. Should we be able to also Süder Happel, man? It would not be surprising: Too obvious, too much “fist in the eye” is her biennial contribution. The reactions from the policy.