Exercise of Rebuilding and Recovery | Closed World Film Program

The four-part exercises build and unbuild a “closed world” progressively and collaboratively, through community participation. Accordingly, the exercises are designed as a generative system which replicates multiple environments including the home, the theater, and the gallery space. A ‘closed-world’ or ‘closed-loop system’ examines the earth as a whole—as a complete and interconnected system.

Closed World, co-curated by Innocent Ekejiuba and Erika Mei Chua Holum, is a four-part film program including works by an international roster of contemporary artists designed as four exercises in healing. The film series is presented in conjunction with Makeshift Memorials, Small Revolutions – an exhibition at the Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston that is co-organized with KADIST – San Francisco and offered as part of the 2024 Texas Biennial: The Last Sky.

Films:

Heba Amin, As Bird’s Flying, 2016
Caroline Déodat, Landslides, 2020
Rahima Gambo, Instruments of Air, 2020
Laurent Montaron, What remains is future, 2006
Eusebio Siosi, Sueños de Jepira (Dreams of Jepira), 2022

Date:

Friday, February 7, 2025 | 2pm

Location:

Blaffer Art Museum