Espejos 2024

Projekt

Dane Komljen | 2023 | 26'

SYNOPSIS

Projekt depicts the site of the International Trade Fair in Lagos as a transhistorical conglomerate of different perspectives by becoming itself a space of encounter and collaboration. It was meant to be a place of trade, exchange and sharing. Now there are flooded rooms, flowers and weeds and snails and birds, cut fruit and cut wood, cooks and carpenters, an artificial lake and football fields, Ema’s memory of what once was here and Kendo’s view of what one can see.

BIOGRAPHY

Dane Komljen

DANE KOMLJEN DANE KOMLJEN (SFR Yugoslavia, 1986) studied cinema and art. He made two features, All the Cities of the North (2016) and Afterwater (2022), along numerous short films. He works and lives in Berlin.

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Critical text

In 1977, the Lagos exhibition complex was inaugurated with five large buildings designed to host economic, political and commercial conventions with players from all over the region. Only ten years later, this collection of buildings was already abandoned. Dane Komljen records this space today, now occupied by artisans, repairers, merchants and citizens who come to spend their free time, and also by nature itself, which makes its way through the concrete, showing the cracks in the original project, which oozes colonialism and corruption. NURIA CUBAS

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