Between fairy tale and media sensation

I will simply begin between fairy tale and media sensation and just look with my curiosity at the human ability to construct, arrange, rearrange and reconstruct, as Edward Said puts it “a unique cultural style, which needn’t resemble or be a copy of one approved model suitable for everyone to follow.” He without doubt refers to the arrogance and ignorance, which seems to flourish as never before under self-obsessed regimes “democratic” or not, feeding on people’s fear and the greed for power. During my stay in Damascus, I do not intend to focus on yet another (western created) problem, which can be formulated when ever comparison is the guide line, when ever one starts with an answer and not a question. I do not intent to start from questions either, because how can I formulate relevant questions, before I have a better impression of the place, where I am? I came here with the thought, that the Middle East is, as actually any part of the world outside the western sphere, mostly presented either by bright colorful photographs in guidebooks, evoking the tourist’s dream of the mysterious ‘other’ or by images of violent conflicts used to sell another daily edition of newspapers. I hope to create a series of images, which, from my personal view point of course, is neither fairy tale nor sensation, just ordinary life.

Between fairy tale and media sensation

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

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