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Michel Obultra 1 opening Sunday, 29 Sept, 19:00h

Michel Obultra 1 Hopscotch Reading Room Kurfürstenstr. 14, 10785 Berlin 29 September–13 October 2018

Beate Engl Rochelle Feinstein Maryam Jafri Khalil Rabah

Organized by Stephanie Weber

The first issue of Michel Obultra’s itinerant program of portfolios and exhibitions will be exhibited and exclusively available for purchase at Hopscotch Reading Room in Berlin, 29 September–13 October 2018.

Michel Obultra 1 includes a custom-punched text piece and musical score by Beate Engl, 7-color Risograph by Rochelle Feinstein, photograph by Maryam Jafri, and object by Khalil Rabah.

The four works included in Michel Obultra 1 each represent different possible methods and means of multiple production: risograph printing, photographic reproduction, 3D-sculpture, and paper perforation. This plurality of mechanical means is echoed in the works’ internal multiplicity: Beate Engl’s “ON AIR” is a slogan as well as a musical score composed of two layers of paper. Rochelle Feinstein’s “Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain” captures the results of refraction and dispersion on white light, occurring in a rainbow. Her print contemporaneously depicts and suspends the elusive optical phenomenon its title hints at. Maryam Jafri’s “Lineage,” a photographic mise-en- abyme, draws on several splits within the artistic subject : presentation and representation, disclosure and concealment, individual authorship and inscription. Finally, Khalil Rabah’s pencil case from The Palestinian Museum of Natural History and Humankind locates a dialectic within a souvenir article: national identity and universal emancipation are the multiples here, divided by a non-existent museum whose specter haunts the writing instrument.

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