GCC

The immersive video installation L’air du temps consists of a roving shot across a recently purchased and renovated hotel particulier in Paris. The film invites the viewer to peer inside an inaccessible space where contemporary objects are digitally sutured to the space. These interventions personify the psychic and physical interaction of commingling colonial forces.

GCC probes these tenuous relationships as potentially symbiotic, without indicating whether the interactions are mutualistic or antagonistic in nature. Instead objects and environment seem seem to interrupt one another, without any apparent benefit or detriment to the original space.

Such tensions are replete in colonial discourses, which center around unequal and uneven forces of cultural representation engaged in an ongoing contest for political and social authority in the world order.

A collective consisting of Abdullah Al-Mutairi, Amal Khalaf, Aziz Al Qatami, Barrak Alzaid, Fatima Al Qadiri, Khalid al Gharaballi, Monira Al Qadiri and Nanu Al-Hamad.

Founded in 2013

The basic objectives of the GCC are to effect collaboration, transformation and inter-connection between Artists in all fields in order to achieve unity between them:

Being fully aware of the ties of special relations, common characteristics and similar systems founded on the creed of Art which bind them; and

In conformity with the Charter of the Federation of Gulf Artists which calls for the realization of closer relations and stronger bonds; and

Having the conviction that coordination, cooperation, and integration between them serve the sublime objectives of the GCC; and,

In order to channel their efforts to reinforce and serve Gulf and Artistic causes.