residents presentation, Humberto Duque & Taran Khan

Tuesday 4th of March 2014
Embassy of Foreign Artists

6.30pm opening of the bar
7pm Humberto Duque presentation
9pm Taran Khan presentation
The event will be followed by a BBQ, projections of Bollywood and Afghans video clips + music.

Humberto Duque (*1978, mexico city)
In his line of research he incorporates elements of fiction that navigate through language, music, architecture, and even baseball. Although simple in essence, this engagement develops into pieces of a larger puzzle, inviting the audience to be immersed in bewildering scenarios. In this process, aspects of popular culture meet head-on with divergent moments of fantasy, hence unfolding incidents of a time that is not ours to call our own. As a consequence, his practice incites artificial landscapes where the absurd and the uncertain prevail.
Humberto Duque attended art school at the Centro Nacional de las Artes in Mexico City and at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe, Germany. He has participated in the CCA Kitakyushu Research Program in Japan, and has been a resident artist at the ISCP in New York City; Montalvo Arts Center in California; Tokyo Wonder Site; Changdong National Art Studio in Seoul, and several other programs. He has been commissioned public art projects by the Denver International Airport and the Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder in Norway. His work has been shown in exhibitions around the world.

marqueegram, public intervention in Sackville, NB, Canada. 2013

Taran Khan (*1978, Mumbai)

Taran khan is a journalist and writer based in Mumbai, India. Her writing has appeared in publications in India and abroad including Caravan, Gulf News, Himal and The Hindu. She is the co founder of Jalebi Ink (www.jalebiink.com) an independent media space for young people.

She has been traveling to Kabul since 2006, where she has worked closely with Afghan filmmakers and media persons.

“On my first walk that Friday afternoon, I learned that there was more to Kabul than it revealed, far more than I had expected. The simple thought came as a revelation that there was a way to belong to this city with its ghosts of a gracious life. There certainly was a way to walk down its shattered streets. At least that I could see. It was at that moment, when I started to wander through Kabul, that I realized that it was far vaster than I would ever grasp.”

Taran Khan beneficie du soutien de Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council.