exhibition
Maria Hanl & Ziad Naitaddi
02/03 – 17/04/2024
curated by Achraf Remok and Elisabeth Piskernik
Opening: Friday, March 01, 2024, 6 pm
Venue: philomena+ project room, Heinestraße 40, 1020 Vienna
Additional Program:
School Workshop Emotional Lands: Tuesday, 13/02/2024, Tuesday, 20/02/2024, Tuesday, 27/02/2024, Tuesday, 05/03/2024
Performance HCIUD by Maria Hanl and Michaela Schausberger: Thursday, 21/03/2024, 6 pm
The exhibition Emotional Lands explores the complexity of human emotions in a rapidly changing world. What experiences trigger feelings? What causes our feelings to change? The artists Maria Hanl (Vienna) and Ziad Naitaddi (Salé) explore these questions and look at the topic of migration and political manipulation from their own perspective.
Ziad Naitaddi’s artistic work invites us to examine our own prejudices and preconceptions by questioning the dichotomy of good and evil and looking at the subtleties of the behaviour of people who are exposed to external and internal changes while migrating.
In her work, Maria Hanl addresses the tension between the individual and society. She is interested in people as social and emotional beings who always relate to a community in their existence. This characteristic makes not only the individual but also entire collectives vulnerable and susceptible to manipulation. Based on Gustave Le Bon’s “Psychology of the Masses”, she examines the influence over emotions as an instrument of power.