Adel Abidin - I Love To Love... 01.11.2013 – 24.11.2013
Forum Box - Space for ArtRuoholahdenranta 3a, 00180 HelsinkiOpening hours: Tuesday-Friday 11-5pm, Saturday-Sunday 12-4pm
Tina Charles' 1976 disco hit 'I Love to Love (But my Baby Loves to Dance)' is the unlikely backdrop against which Abidin introduces new works that continue to draw on themes such as power relations and violence. In I love to love the charged and intimate setting of a nightclub functions as a stage upon which the dynamics of seeing and blindness, perpetrator and victim, looking and being looked at are played out in sinister ways. The mechanics of capturing and releasing an image, a gaze, a movement, in an atmosphere of surveillance, are trapped and amplified in Abidin's video and light box installations. Moving to the lightness of a love song, and its rhythm, becomes a treacherous, dark, and disturbingly ambiguous game.