EXERCISE / تمري
Video-installation 2006-2022A school bench for a primary school in the sixties forms the center of the installation by Nermine El ansari. The exercise books with Arabic and English titles and their corresponding national, educational techniques have been released for use and are lying ready on the table. The visitors are supposed to leave their traces with felt pens on the interleaved transparent pages. The composition is directed towards a video projection that shows a sequence of cartographic presentations of the West Bank. The cuts come in quick succession and the viewing time for individual images is short. Initially, the borderline is still clearly recognisable. Then the use of colors dominates more and more. The colors flow across the borders until they create a red-edged explosion which is immediately followed by an implosion because the loop picks up the forward movement from the beginning again. The drawing of borders and where the borders run are questioned as a historical reality by Nermine El ansari. The playful treatment leads one to keep one’s distance from the educational effect of believing in the knowledge im- parted at school, it denounces the inhumanity of made borders and breaks with the old doctrine
Martin H. Schmidt
