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basis e.V. presents Atlas for the Disappeared, the first solo exhibition of Haitian-Canadian artist and filmmaker Miryam Charles. For this exhibition, the artist has revisited her feature film Cette Maison, her short film Tous les jours de mai and the sounds from her short films Drei Atlas and Chanson pour le nouveau monde, weaving them together into a new arrangement. What unfolds are three sonic landscapes that engage with the central themes of her work: the entanglement of mourning, diasporic memory, identity, and exile.
The title Atlas for the Disappeared gestures toward a cartography. Yet what these works trace are not fixed routes or stable places, they don’t chart a map on which disappearance and the disappeared can be pinned down. Instead, they follow echoes and resonances, voices and songs, creating spaces for listening. From this act of listening emerges an Atlas for the Disappeared, for those who live unde…
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basis e.V. presents Atlas for the Disappeared, the first solo exhibition of Haitian-Canadian artist and filmmaker Miryam Charles. For this exhibition, the artist has revisited her feature film Cette Maison, her short film Tous les jours de mai and the sounds from her short films Drei Atlas and Chanson pour le nouveau monde, weaving them together into a new arrangement. What unfolds are three sonic landscapes that engage with the central themes of her work: the entanglement of mourning, diasporic memory, identity, and exile.
The title Atlas for the Disappeared gestures toward a cartography. Yet what these works trace are not fixed routes or stable places, they don’t chart a map on which disappearance and the disappeared can be pinned down. Instead, they follow echoes and resonances, voices and songs, creating spaces for listening. From this act of listening emerges an Atlas for the Disappeared, for those who live unde…
