Ping Pong
Ping Pong
/ Adel Abidin
- Galeri Zilberman, Istanbul; 2011
- 40p; 21x17cm
One channel video and sound installation. ------------- Two ping-pong players are in an endless, heated match. The men, engaged in their power struggle, are completely oblivious to a naked women lying in the middle of the table replacing the net. As the ball flies back and forth across the table, it hits the woman’s body leaving red marks. She lays motionless as she is assaulted over and over. The viewer is confronted by this repeated act of violence but is rendered powerless. Who is playing and who is being played?
English; Turkish
Contemporary Art
N4390-5098 Exhibitions
Iraq
One channel video and sound installation. ------------- Two ping-pong players are in an endless, heated match. The men, engaged in their power struggle, are completely oblivious to a naked women lying in the middle of the table replacing the net. As the ball flies back and forth across the table, it hits the woman’s body leaving red marks. She lays motionless as she is assaulted over and over. The viewer is confronted by this repeated act of violence but is rendered powerless. Who is playing and who is being played?
English; Turkish
Contemporary Art
N4390-5098 Exhibitions
Iraq