Video Works

GLOBE

GLOBE

Video, 2013
Full HD, 03:35 min, non-dialogue

The gesture subtly recalls the famous scene in Charlie Chaplin’s film The Great Dictator (1940)….

Globe is a short video piece in which issues of global mobility, identity, and the symbolic image of the world as a common but unequal space are explored. The work is based on a very simple performative act, in which the artist engages with a globe, an object conventionally signifying the world as a whole, coherent, and integral entity.

The gesture is also reminiscent of the celebrated scene from Chaplin’s The Great Dictator (1940), in which Chaplin, in the guise of the dictator Hynkel, plays with a globe as if it were a balloon, dreaming of having complete control of the world. The gesture, in echoing this iconic image, also brings in a moment of irony in relation to issues of power, ownership, and authority.

In this manner of performative interaction, the globe is no longer simply a model of geography. It becomes a metaphor for contemporary globalization, a world where there is movement and exchange and also great political and economic disparities.

In a manner similar to what is seen in many of Entekhabi’s works, the artist’s body serves as a mediator between different cultural and social spaces. Placed between humor and reflection, *Globe* turns an educational tool into a poetic reflection on globalization and migration.

Exhibitions & Screenings (selection)

2017: XXIII. Rohkunstbau: Die Schönheit Im Anderen | The Beauty Of Difference, curated by Mark Gisborne, Schloss Lieberose, Lieberose, Germany.(catalogue)

2013/2014: Im Vorbeigehen II/5: "The Atlas Program", curated by Monika Leisch-Kiesl and Julia Allerstorfer, Catholic Private University Linz (KTU), Linz Austria. (Solo Exhibition)(catalogue)