LAURA HORELLI – THE TERRACE
2011-12-19In The Terrace, Laura Horelli addresses her childhood experiences in Nairobi, where she lived for four years with her family in a modernist compound in the later 1970s and early 1980s. The work includes video recordings of the compound and its buildings, filmed by the artist during visits to Nairobi in 2010, and also photographs of varying sizes and quality that were taken by her mother and document the everyday life of the family in Nairobi. These various perspectives are accompanied by the artist’s thoughts and ideas in a voice-over. Horelli reflects on the social and physical environment of the gated area and particularly on the relationships between the tenants and the employed staff there.
Horelli continues her conceptual approach, based on addressing reality in a subjective way. Personal stories are used to examine structures in society. The borders between the public and the private become diffuse.
Exhibition runs through to January 7th, 2012
Galerie Barbara Weiss
Kohlfurter Strasse 41/43
D – 10999 Berlin
Germany
