What remains is tomorrow

Brett Murray
Triumph, 2015
Dual-channel digital video installation
6 min 48 sec
Edition of 5
Editor/camera: Gavin Elder,
Sound: Warrick Sony
Production: Monkey Films,
Sound studio: Milestone Studios
  
"Leni Riefenstahl’s fascist propaganda film Triumph of the Will (Triumph des Willens, 1935) shows Hitler’s infamous 1934 Nuremberg Rally speech. This terrifying and compelling oration appears to be an echo still reverberating through current sites
of conflict in many countries. Religious, territorial, cultural, ethnic and racial battles across the world are incited, propagandised and perpetuated by means of the same powerful myth in which the protagonists chant, ‘We are the chosen people!’ The mirrored videos of Murray’s work Triumph are a reminder of what we have come through, but also serve as a warning of the demagoguery that South Africans may face in the future (and as an ironic manifestation of some of what underpins the current wave of xenophobia sweeping across the country)."

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What remains is tomorrow
The South African Pavilion | Venice Biennale 2015
 
Curated by Christopher Till and Jeremy Rose
 
Artists:
Willem Boshoff
Haroon Gunn-Salie
Angus Gibson
Mark Lewis
Gerald Machona
Mohau Modisakeng
Nandipha Mntambo
Brett Murray
Serge Alain Nitegeka
Jo Ractliffe
Robin Rhode
Warrick Sony
Diane Victor
Jeremy Wafer

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