Nadia Kaabi-Linke at Mosaic Rooms

The first UK solo show by Nadia Kaabi Linke will be on display at the Mosaic Rooms in Earl’s Court from the 10th of October 2014.
“The Future Rewound & The Cabinet of Souls” features recent work and commissioned site-specific installations.

The Future Rewound explores enduring methods of control in contemporary life.

The Cabinet of Souls inverts the roles of spectators and objects. The works make visible the ghostly shadows that continue to influence social forces today.

In a new commission, Faces, the artist appropriates archival photographs of tribes people brought to London for the ‘Savage South Africa’ spectacle that formed part of Kiralfy’s Greater Britain Exhibition in 1899. The artist re-invests each person with individuality, while simultaneously invoking the camera as a tool of Western imperial control. In Tunisian Americans, vials of the soil that surrounds 400 US military graves in Tunisia are placed within old type cases and labelled with their corresponding social security numbers.
Impunities London Originals similarly negotiates visibility, using forensic methodology to render discernable the scars of domestic violence, physical and psychological – trapped as traces on fragile paper.