FELIX GAUDLITZ curated by Niloufar Emamifar and Pujan Karambeigi
„The gold fell from very high in the sky, and so when it hit the earth, it went down very very deep“

Niloufar Emamifar is an artist. Her work has been exhibited at Hammer Museum, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, The Huntington, Human Resources Los Angeles, the Venice Biennale of Architecture, SculptureCenter, and Essex Street Gallery in New York City. Pujan Karambeigi is a PhD student in the Department of Art History at Columbia University and editorial contributor at Jacobin magazine. He focuses on multiculturalism in the 1970s and the ways in which art interfaced with the Western European immigration system.

How to tell a structure? How to narrate this thing that is both pervasive and invisible, both determined and determining, both repressive and enabling? With Sohrab Shahid-Saless’ film In der Fremde, the structure has clear contours: It designates the way in which exploitation, inequality and dehumanization is being maintained on an everyday basis. As much as a structure cannot be shown directly, it can be rendered visible through a series of detours: No plot but environments, no psychology but frames, no catharsis but mechanical repetition.