Taking its title from a 1963 documentary titled 'The Changing Face of Camberwell', Matić saw the production of the work as a way of archiving the billboard in a way that encompassed their body in order to be decontextualized. The final artwork in the exhibition, the changing face, again sees Matić dancing in a public place, this time in Camberwell, London. The slowed down visuals are accompanied by a voiceover, addressing the complexities surrounding being a Black womxn artist, feeling both restricted and angry about how the art world sees them and their work, as well as questioning their own artwork and its mode of production. Brown girl in the art world III features Matić both dancing and performing in front of a vacated pub in Cornwall. Rene Matić’s 2019 film Brown girl in the art world III is accompanied by another, unseen film by Matić from 2019, titled the changing face. The recreation and reframing of the video is to reference the dramatic rise in search of ‘refugee porn’ online and exploitation of these brown bodies serving as disposable narratives under the white gaze.
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The video consists of an animated recreation of a porn video found online, between a German man and a Syrian refugee. A 2018 work of Mahfooz’s, Arab Fuckers, is also included in the exhibition. Superficial questions being asked of the artist subtly shift to inquiries regarding racial abuse and embedded prejudice, as well as echoing the duality of her cultural background. In Mahfooz’s version the artist created a surrogate digital representation of herself situated on the physical streets of Manor Park in London, an act of reframing and restaging tropes as a signifier of her dislocation of identity in a loss of what constitutes as her selfhood.
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Her 2019 film 30 Questions with Maria Mahfooz is a parody of Vogues’s ’73 questions with.’ series in which the magazine interviews celebrities as they walk around their house. Mahfooz’s work is often autobiographical and guided by her identity as a visibly brown muslim. Two of Maria Mahfooz’s recent videos are included in the exhibition.
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You can also download the app and experience the wall in its original form within your own home. Within the context of the online exhibition the app has been deconstructed and repurposed, with elements from the work scattered throughout the show. Rather than designed for individual use alone, the app is intended for multiple users all interacting with the same wall, questioning whether an experience shared amongst the group and its inherent dynamics is any different from experiencing the wall alone. Reacting to the growing global desire to build more walls between us, under the promise of greater safety and security, participants use a new AR app on smartphones that creates a temporary virtual wall between them, enabling them to experience the separation in real life. Tamara Kametani’s 2019 artwork Walls 2.0: Augmenting border reality is an experience enabled by a multiplayer augmented reality app that explores the notion of borders, separation, and the freedom of movement. The works included in Time Out Of Joint consider and highlight fundamental issues that have been, and continue to be, inadvertently or otherwise ingrained within people and places, from reflecting on the pernicious nature of the white gaze to exploring the notion of borders, separation and the freedom of movement. The invented world eventually crumbles, exposing the harsh realities of the present, forcing Gumm to recognise and learn from his past mistakes. Throughout the book Gumm spends most of his time living in a mentally and physically fabricated version of the year 1959, occasionally breaking out of his counterfeit world and into the actual present day, in the year 1998. Within the dystopian text the nature of reality is continually questioned and the protagonist, Ragle Gumm, experiences the world unravelling around him.
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The exhibition takes its name from the 1959 novel of the same name by Philip K. The exhibition acts as a time capsule, exhibiting several works that reflect upon various aspects of our current state of affairs. Time Out Of Joint is an exhibition exploring the idea of the archive, considering a number of elements from within our culture and society that are far too often unconsidered and actively concealed in the present day, but will be reflected upon and studied in the near and far future.
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Tamara Kametani, Maria Mahfooz and Rene Matić