A city called mirage

Henda’s exhibition at the ISCP in New York looks at real cities and their 3D models in an immersive video installation, together with three interconnected series of photographs.

"Kiluanji Kia Henda: A City Called Mirage", exhibition view, International Studio & Curatorial Program, 2017
The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York presented “A City Called Mirage”, an exhibition by Kiluanji Kia Henda that looks at real cities and their 3D models in an immersive four-channel video installation, together with three interconnected series of photographs.

 

In “A City Called Mirage”, Henda considers the birth, life and death of modern cities. In Paradise Metalic (2014), four synchronized videos together recount the construction of an ideal city built on the barren Maliha Desert in Sharjah. At once land art and performance, a new fictional country is established and subsequently demolished in the sand, hauntingly demarcated by stakes in the ground, concrete walls and iron skeletons of buildings.

Img.6 "Kiluanji Kia Henda: A City Called Mirage", exhibition view, International Studio & Curatorial Program, 2017
Img.6 "Kiluanji Kia Henda: A City Called Mirage", exhibition view, International Studio & Curatorial Program, 2017

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