Video Works
Video Works
ISLAMIC STAR
Single channel video, 06:06 min
In Islamic Star, Shahram Entekhabi performs a constructed male figure whose appearance, gestures and behaviour draw upon culturally coded images of Islamic identity and masculinity.
The work is part of a series of performative video works from 2005 in which Entekhabi adopts different male identities and explores how images of migration, cultural difference and masculinity are constructed, performed and perceived.
CRITICAL TEXT BY JULIA ALLERSTORFER-HERTEL
→ READ THE COMPLETE TEXT“Here, the artist performs stereotypical images of migrant otherness. The figures share an ironic-satirical exaggeration, their embedding in public space, a focus on relations of looking, and a play with attributions.”
English translation from:DORIS BERGER
“Through the embodiment of diverse figures in his works, Shahram Entekhabi adopts manifold attributes of an actual or presumed state of ‘being different’, making these visible by means of role play in public space.”
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