Ties with the City

This exhibition brings together five video works that trace the complex interplay between urban space, social transformation.

Daniel G. Andújar’s old-school video game reveals the reality of war and shows what happens to the city, the environment, and the people after the conflict. From the speculative infrastructures of Anaklia’s smart city in Tekla Aslanishvili’s film, to Harun Farocki’s silent reflection on musical and spatial composition in Music-Video, to Nilbar Güreş’s performative dialogue with two immigrant women on Governor’s Island – formerly a well-known military base in the United States – confronting power and belonging, and finally to Daniela Ortiz’s intimate gesture of destroying a fascist Italian knife as an act of transformation, making, and resistance.

Each work reveals how cities shape, and are shaped by, human gestures, technologies, and dreams. Ties with the City explores the poetic and political tensions that define our contemporary urban condition.