{"id":11558,"date":"2022-11-28T09:29:28","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T07:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/?p=11558"},"modified":"2022-12-25T11:21:28","modified_gmt":"2022-12-25T09:21:28","slug":"our-shared-future-marwa-arsanios-reverse-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/our-shared-future-marwa-arsanios-reverse-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Shared Future: Marwa Arsanios\u2019 \u201cReverse Shot\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11560\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11560\" style=\"width: 1400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11560 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Marwa-Arsanios-Reverse-Shot-2022-2023.-Installation-view-at-The-Mosaic-Rooms.-Photo-Andy-Stagg..jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Marwa-Arsanios-Reverse-Shot-2022-2023.-Installation-view-at-The-Mosaic-Rooms.-Photo-Andy-Stagg..jpg 1400w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Marwa-Arsanios-Reverse-Shot-2022-2023.-Installation-view-at-The-Mosaic-Rooms.-Photo-Andy-Stagg.-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Marwa-Arsanios-Reverse-Shot-2022-2023.-Installation-view-at-The-Mosaic-Rooms.-Photo-Andy-Stagg.-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Marwa-Arsanios-Reverse-Shot-2022-2023.-Installation-view-at-The-Mosaic-Rooms.-Photo-Andy-Stagg.-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Marwa-Arsanios-Reverse-Shot-2022-2023.-Installation-view-at-The-Mosaic-Rooms.-Photo-Andy-Stagg.-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Marwa-Arsanios-Reverse-Shot-2022-2023.-Installation-view-at-The-Mosaic-Rooms.-Photo-Andy-Stagg.-1320x990.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11560\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marwa Arsanios&#8217; &#8220;Reverse Shot&#8221; 2022-2023 exhibition at the Mosaic Rooms, Londn, installation view (photo courtesy Andy Stagg).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h4>\u00a0<\/h4>\n<p>&#8220;Reverse Shot,&#8221; solo exhibition by Marwa Arsanios<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mosaicrooms.org\/event\/marwa-arsanios-reverse-shot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Mosaic Rooms<\/a>, Tower House, 226 Cromwell Road, London SW5\u00a00SW<br \/>\nThrough Jan. 22, 20<span class=\"tribe-event-date-end\">23<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>Mariam Elnozahy<\/h4>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cReverse Shot,\u201d on at the Mosaic Rooms through the 22nd of January, 2023, is Marwa Arsanios\u2019 debut London solo exhibition. The first room in the exhibition presents the public with a syllabus in political ecology, a field which positions itself at the intersection of economics, nature, culture, and society. The books on display include theoretical texts such as <em>The Dialectics of Nature <\/em>by Fredrich Engels and <em>The Three Ecologies <\/em>by Felix Guattari which set up the ontological framework of the exhibition, and historically rooted case studies such as <em>The Animal in Ottoman Egypt <\/em>and <em>The Arab Lands under Ottoman Rule, <\/em>which bring those theoretical frameworks to use in a praxis. This room, wherein exhibition-goers can sit to read or skim the artist\u2019s selection of texts, sets up the exhibition as a proposition for our shared future, one that tackles questions such as: how will we reconfigure our relationship to land, our relationship to labor, our relationship to history? &#8220;Reverse Shot&#8221; answers these questions in a way that is carefully calculated, historically rooted, and committed to political action.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11563\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11563\" style=\"width: 1400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11563\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Marwa-Arsanios-Reverse-Shot-2022-2023.-photo-Andy-Stagg..jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Marwa-Arsanios-Reverse-Shot-2022-2023.-photo-Andy-Stagg..jpg 1400w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Marwa-Arsanios-Reverse-Shot-2022-2023.-photo-Andy-Stagg.-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Marwa-Arsanios-Reverse-Shot-2022-2023.-photo-Andy-Stagg.-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Marwa-Arsanios-Reverse-Shot-2022-2023.-photo-Andy-Stagg.-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Marwa-Arsanios-Reverse-Shot-2022-2023.-photo-Andy-Stagg.-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Marwa-Arsanios-Reverse-Shot-2022-2023.-photo-Andy-Stagg.-1320x990.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11563\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marwa Arsanios, Reverse Shot, 2023. Installation view at The Mosaic Rooms. Photography: Andy Stagg.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The first film in the exhibition brings us back to Beirut in 2016, a time when investors and speculators were rapidly increasing land value through population displacement and ecocide, among other tactics. In a city that was nearly razed in a matter of minutes as a result of the August 2020 Beirut Port Explosion, it is difficult to identify the decimation of Beirut\u2019s urban fabric as a long, systematic, and historical process. No doubt, events such as the port explosion are a catalyst towards the desolate condition that Lebanon is in today. But there are many significant historical factors that have made Beirut unlivable. One of the most prominent of these factors is the large-scale real estate development boom that has engulfed Beirut since the aftermath of the civil war, which ended in 1990, when the city underwent a neoliberal restructuring. This land-grabbing development scheme is the subject of the first film shown in the exhibition, <em>Falling is not Collapsing Falling is Extending<\/em> (2016).<\/p>\n<p>The work hones in on the financialization of Beirut\u2019s urban spaces by focusing on a specific site, the Karantina Garbage Dump, a mountain of rubble in the Medawar quarter, near Beirut\u2019s port. The 2020 explosion was devastating for the Karantina neighborhood, which was primarily inhabited by members of a lower socio-economic class, but even before that, the area suffered from rampant exploitation and unjust practices. Arsanios first introduces us to Karantina through a view of the canal that opens to the sea, flanked by trees and shrubs. The first sequence presents a perfectly bucolic scene, only slightly disturbed by a faint mirage of a city in the distance. A meditation on this picturesque moment quickly transitions to a view of the Karantina garbage site, which, after its closure in 1997, was repurposed as a recreational zone for people in the neighborhood. Close ups reveal how the debris had been integrated into the land; the tires, plastic bags, and other rubbish had become subsumed by their surroundings and look more like archeological artifacts than modern waste. A wider shot shows how the garbage dump resembles a small mountain, built from layers of garbage sediment yet overgrown by shrubs and organisms that have found ways to make this toxic site habitable.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11564\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11564\" style=\"width: 1400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11564\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Marwa-Arsanios-Chart-for-the-usership-of-the-land-2022.-Installation-View-in-Peckham-London-photo-Andy-Stagg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Marwa-Arsanios-Chart-for-the-usership-of-the-land-2022.-Installation-View-in-Peckham-London-photo-Andy-Stagg.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Marwa-Arsanios-Chart-for-the-usership-of-the-land-2022.-Installation-View-in-Peckham-London-photo-Andy-Stagg-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Marwa-Arsanios-Chart-for-the-usership-of-the-land-2022.-Installation-View-in-Peckham-London-photo-Andy-Stagg-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Marwa-Arsanios-Chart-for-the-usership-of-the-land-2022.-Installation-View-in-Peckham-London-photo-Andy-Stagg-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Marwa-Arsanios-Chart-for-the-usership-of-the-land-2022.-Installation-View-in-Peckham-London-photo-Andy-Stagg-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Marwa-Arsanios-Chart-for-the-usership-of-the-land-2022.-Installation-View-in-Peckham-London-photo-Andy-Stagg-1320x990.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11564\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marwa Arsanios, &#8220;Chart for the usership of the land, 2022,&#8221; installation view in Peckham, London (photo courtesy Andy Stagg).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This kind of habitational recuperation bleeds out of the film into a wooden installation that somehow mirrors the Karantina garbage mountain: a slanted structure opposite the video showcasing four layers of drawings entitled \u201cResilient Weeds,\u201d each representing an organism that is able to exist in toxic environments such as Karantina\u2019s. The drawings continue into a long textile work, wherein more organisms, this time, representing snapshots of village life in Northern Syria, are embroidered into the fabric by a group of local craftswomen from the <a href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/samalebanon\">Sama Organization<\/a>. Here, the women who come from the village of Jinwar, work with the artist to turn their memories of the natural environment that surrounds them into designs that are then reconfigured in the textile. Though the textile is from a different work to \u201cResilient Weeds,\u201d the concept can be extended as a metaphor, wherein the resilient weeds are the laborers themselves, whose handcraft labor is sustained despite disappearing landscapes and toxic conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The textile introduces another prominent line of inquiry present in the exhibition, one of labor and labor conditions, carried out by the video installation entitled \u201cAmateurs, Stars, and Extras or the Labor of Love<em>\u201d <\/em>(2012, 2018), the last work shown in this room. The video jumps between a film set in Lebanon and a fancy villa in Mexico City, both manicured sites which are disrupted by conversations with extras, in the former, and members of the domestic worker\u2019s syndicate, in the latter. The conversations revolve around the cost of labor and the reproduction of labor, specifically by domestic workers who feel no sense of ownership over their work or the spaces they care for. The film is able to shed light on the invisibility of the labor of domestic workers, who are noticed only in their absence, when things become unkempt, and of extras, whose long days of waiting and silence backstage are essential to producing a clean final cut. Interviews with domestic workers illustrate how this invisibility is manipulated, resulting in laborers who are not recognized for their work, which is unregulated. One woman poses the question: who cares for the carers?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11565\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11565\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11565\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Marwa-Arsanios-the-markaz-review.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Marwa-Arsanios-the-markaz-review.jpg 900w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Marwa-Arsanios-the-markaz-review-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Marwa-Arsanios-the-markaz-review-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Marwa-Arsanios-the-markaz-review-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Marwa-Arsanios-the-markaz-review-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Marwa-Arsanios-the-markaz-review-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11565\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marwa Arsanios is an artist, filmmaker and researcher who reconsiders politics of the mid-20th century from a contemporary perspective, with a focus on gender relations, urbanism and industrialisation. She approaches research collaboratively and seeks to work across disciplines. Her solo shows include Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (2021); Skuc Gallery, Ljubljana (2018); Beirut Art Center (2017); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2016); Kunstinstituut Melly FKA Witte de With, Rotterdam (2016) and Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon (2015). Her work has also been featured in numerous group exhibitions including: Documenta 15 (2022), Sharjah Biennale (2019) and Home Works Forum, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut (2010, 2013, 2015).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is the question that leads us into the final video work, the fourth part of the artist\u2019s \u201cWho is Afraid of Ideology\u201d series entitled \u201cReverse Shot, (2022)\u201d exhibited in the bottom level of the gallery in a cinematically darkened room. Only when the film is bright do we see the writings on a series of posters on the wall, which together form a manifesto entitled \u201cChart for the usership of the land (2022).\u201d The work follows an experiment conducted by the artist and a group of collaborators in North Lebanon, who are attempting to deprivatize an allotment of land and turn it into a social foundation (waqf) or a public domain (masha\u2019a). The artist goes into Ottoman archives to dig into the history of the designation, and formulate an argument for the redesignation of the land, which would promote it for usership by people who do not own a land, who would cultivate it solely for agricultural purposes. She also interviews an old inhabitant of the area, who tells an oral history of informal land ownership systems that pre-date the land registrar\u2019s establishment during the French mandate. The artist asks the old man how the land was divided, a question which, to him, seemed so intuitive that it was almost misunderstood. His answer was simple: \u201cThe land was divided according to who was using it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later in the film, the old man elaborates that the people who worked hard to make a tiny bit of land cultivable for their survival were attached to it. He uses an Arabic phrase that literally means: \u201cThe land lived the people,\u201d which would translate to \u201cthe people lived off of the land.\u201d The subject-object tension between the land perspective and human perspective is constantly reiterated throughout the film, both aesthetically and in the voiceover dialogue. Can land provide without people? Can land have desires and demands? Aesthetically, the artist uses devices such as animation or camera perspectives that defy human-eye-level to try to inhabit the perspective of the land. Despite the limitations to inhabiting non-human perspectives \u2014 one of the interlocutors asks, \u201cIf property is the representation of land, how would we film it without owning it?\u201d \u2014 the artist nevertheless takes on the challenge. To do so, she relies on filmic devices to try to represent the epistemological shift necessary in reformulating an understanding of the Earth as agentive, kinetic, and able to articulate its own needs and desires. A key example is when a shot of the quarry in the mountain surrounding the land in question yields to an animation in which rocks dance while an audio describes how property accumulation is shaken by tectonic movements or earthquakes. Here, the artist is able to approach a non-human perspective in order to convey how and when the land is able to articulate its desire that it does not want to be owned.<\/p>\n<p>Who cares for the carers? The land cares for us, and we care for the land, but how do we regulate this relationship in a modern framework wherein care and cultivation often slip into unregulated labor and exploitation? The artist turns to the only mechanisms at our disposal, as humans: political, legal, or religious mechanisms to restructure the relationship between ourselves and the land. These mechanisms are outlined in the manifesto accompanying the video, which states codes ranging from those as simple as \u201cThe land shall not be inherited\u201d and \u201cThe land shall not be built\u201d to \u201cThe land shall only be tended following permaculture processes\u201d and \u201cThe surplus produce can be sold and the benefits divided between users.\u201d The manifesto presents a political vision that attempts to restructure social, economic, and power relations. While it is not perfect \u2014 my mother, who attended the exhibition with me, asked why would the artist go through all this trouble to create all these rules and designate the plot of land as a masha\u2019a if it was not going to be inherited \u2014 it is a powerful (unafraid) consequence of the ideologies Arsanios has synthesized in the works present in the exhibition.<\/p>\n<p>In film, reverse shot is a technique that presents two angles: an action and a reaction. Typically, filmmakers use this to shoot dialogue between two characters, who, though present in the same scene, are filmed separately using different camera angles. As film viewers, we are often placed in the position of one of the actors, facing the other head on, either provoking a response or awaiting an answer. We are forced into a perspective that allows us to feel a once-distant tension intimately, and maybe even, to think about what our response would be were we in this position. In the exhibition, viewers are made to experience the same shift in perspective. The artist presents a series of happenings and asks: if you were in this position, what would you do? If this happened in front of you, how would you react?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mariam Elnozahy reviews the new exhibit at London&#8217;s Mosaic Rooms that looks at ecology and politics in 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