Mirror Sonata in 6 Animated Movements

Mirror Sonata in 6 Animated Movements (For 12 Hands) is a 1 minute 30 seconds split-single-channel video installation by Egyptian-French visual artist and filmmaker Khaled Hafez. The project was first developed for the 56th Venice Biennale Official Collateral exhibition In The Eye of The Thunderstorm, curated by Italian curator and art historian Martina Corgnati, commissioned by Canadian-Egyptian commissioner and curator Omar Donia, for the contemporary art journal Contemporary Practices.

Synopsis:
Mirror Sonata in Six Animated Movements (For Twelve Hands) split-single-channel video installation that explores the ideas of appearances as an identifier of cultural specificity, cultural pride, the self as maker of past, present and future, the self as creator of melody and movement. The work is remotely inspired by the seminal work of Jorge Luis Borges Tlon Uqbar Orbis Tertius, where reality is mixed with metaphysics in the form of the mirror acting as the spy protagonist operating within ancient Mesopotamia. 

Info:
Producer: Khaled Hafez & Contemporary Practices Projects
Year of Production: 2013
56th Venice Biennale Official Collateral
Commissioner: Omar Donia
Curator: Martina Corgnati

Credits:
Concept & script: Khaled Hafez
Editor & animation: Ahmed El Shaer
Original Music Score: Mohamed Saleh
Copyrights: Khaled Hafez

Public Screenings:
56th Venice Biennale Official Collateral In the Eye of the Thunderstorm, 2015
1st Trio Biennale, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, 2015
1st Bienal del Sur, Caracas, Venezuela, 2015
2nd Asunción Biennale, Paraguay, 2017
Curitiba Biennale, Brazil, 2017
Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil Museum, Ofok Gallery, Cairo, Egypt, 2019
Museum of Fine Arts, Alexandria Egypt, 2020