 Anri Sala, Answer Me, 2008, color HD video projection, stereo sound, 4 minutes 51 seconds. Anri
Sala became well known in the late 1990s for works that reflected on
life in his native Albania, and he has had a remarkable artistic career
since. His video installations capture allegorical moments, often
casting the notion of time in a central role. This spring, the Musée
d’Art Contemporain de Montréal is giving Sala his first solo show in
Canada, with works made in the past eight years including the video
installations Long Sorrow, 2005, Answer Me, 2008, and The Clash, 2010, and the percussive installation Doldrums,
2008, all of which foreground the experience of sound in (urban,
architectural, social) space. The show itself will stage an elaborate
choreography of appearing and vanishing images, light, and sound—a form
of storytelling its own right—and will be accompanied by a bilingual
catalogue. Translated from German by Oliver E. Dryfuss.
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