SADAF H. NAVA: Fabula’s Score at Luma Westbau
(commisioned)
Filmed & edited by Jumana Issa
(2021)
Fabula’s Score is the first institutional exhibition showing the entire scope of Sadaf H Nava’s practice as a visual artist, musician and performer. Aimed at animating the different elements of her practice as a total work of art, the exhibition has the promise of a fable.
Like in a fabulous story in which objects come to life and speak, Nava treats her scores and musical notes as protagonists. By building a narrative around the visual markers of music making – such as a stage, a microphone, musical notes – these components are inserted into an expanded "score" and transformed into a fable. The dense, spatial accrochage, recalling a stage-set-like environment, includes paintings, displays, stages, drawings, videos, projections, sculpture and live performance.
This exhibition is part of a program curated by Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen for schwarzescafé, Luma Westbau.
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