The Orangerie / Yael Bartana, Raafat Hattab, Muhammad Toukhy, Hinda Weiss

"Dear Friends and colleagues,

Extending this invitation to The Orangerie carries a particular resonance for me. From next week, four video works by Yael Bartana, Raafat Hattab, Muhammad Toukhy, and Hinda Weiss will virtually inhabit the covered-up wound-space of the expropriated Rothschild family residence turned Grüneburgpark, Frankfurt. The works will be accessible at all times and free of charge via the WAVA app.

Opening Tuesday, September 24th, 17:30-19:30, around the Mahnmal Familie Rothschild, Grüneburgpark, Frankfurt am Main.

We hope to see you at the opening or invite you for a tour when you next pass by Frankfurt. 

Ben and the WAVA team. 

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The Orangerie presents a collection of video works that fuse documentary and fiction in an attempt to observe and understand complex entanglements. Emerging from sedimented political and social environments, the artists explore various image-making tools to break through the seen world. Appearing along a circular path in Grüneburgpark through Augmented Reality, the videos virtually inhabit the physical space together, without separability. 

What powers do images have in processing composite realities and cultivating political imaginaries? As extreme winds blow, The Orangerie seeks to shelter and hold open possible spaces of encounter. Within the covered-up wound-space of the Grüneburgpark, the video works coexist, different yet inseparable, bound by ceaseless storms of histories and the continuously generated trauma of displacement and loss".

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