Eric Magassa's installation Let the Drums Speak, set to be installed on the Korfmann library's façade and surrounding area. This installation delves into themes of identity and place by remixing overlooked local and global personal narratives and histories. Magassa’s vibrant work—blending collage, painting, and photography—transforms private and community memories into new visuals that transcend time and space. In collaboration with neighbors and local artists, and with the Mukhtar of Fevzipaşa, Çanakkale's central Roma neighborhood, the installation extends beyond its immediate setting, with posters disseminated throughout the city, circulating the energy of the area. In the Korfmann library's reading room, Magassa has placed a single object hanging from the wooden beams above the heads of the readers below. Eric Magassa begins with a standardized image of an artifact, stripped of its original context and reduced to a mere catalog entry within a Western collection. By introducing glitches and distorting its form, he disrupts this static representation, allowing the object to break free from the rigid frameworks imposed upon it. This transformation creates room for new interpretations, challenging conventional museological perspectives and inviting a more open-ended, multidimensional exploration of the object's potential
significance. By bringing subjective, hidden, or forgotten moments into public view, Magassa’s work aligns with the biennial concept of experiencing the world from broader and more diverse perspectives. His practice of remixing images results in a temporal collapse that opens up new layers of meaning and fosters connections across cultures, identities, places, and generations.
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