ICA Cologne

Mey Semtati

Info: Mey Semtati’s work invites us to enter a landscape of concrete and playgrounds in primary colours. The buildings and pavements are heavy and covered with indecipherable inscriptions: it is in this deterioration that voices are heard. The space is a tale haunted by children who understand each other without speaking, ghosts of family portraits, a legendary pirate, an ambiguous djinn… Each occupies its place, delineating within the apparent chaos a territory that is stratified in layers of frost or dust, blood and memories. – Paul Perrucon