FFF1 | Pixelated Revolution

The internationally celebrated Lebanese artist Rabih Mroué makes his Greek debut with two singular spectacles. The first is the much-acclaimed “Pixelated Revolution” (2012), a talk/performance its creator describes as “anti-academic” which starts with the observation that “The Syrian people is filming its own death”. Rabih Mroué’s work is a comment on eye-witness records of the cold-blooded murder of unarmed civilians in the city of Homs, Syria, and the subsequent reproduction of these videos and photographs on the Internet and social networks.

Combining bitterness with irony and a newsreader-style delivery, Mroué highlights an unexpected link with the Danish Dogma ’95 cinema movement and its arguments in favor of a transgressively amateurish aesthetic. Throughout the course of the performance, the viewer’s gaze identifies both with that of the amateur filmmaker and that of the sniper whose bullet brings the filming to a stop permanently. The first version of "Pixelated Revolution" was presented at the recent Documenta 13 in Kassel, Germany.