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Runa Islam Assault (still) 2008 16mm colour film, silent Image courtesy the artist and White Cube, London © the artist
Runa Islam Be The First To See What You See As You See It 2004 16mm colour film, sound installation view, Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg, 2005 Image courtesy the artist and White Cube, London © the artist Photograph: Gerry Johansson
Runa Islam Be The First To See What You See As You See It (still) 2004 16mm colour film, sound Image courtesy the artist and White Cube, London © the artist
Runa Islam Scale 1/16 inch = 1 foot 2003 super 16mm film on DV (two screen projection), sound installation view, Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg, 2005 Image courtesy the artist and White Cube, London © the artist Photograph: Gerry Johansson
Runa Islam The house belongs to those who inhabit it. 2008 16mm colour film, silent with separate non-sync soundtrack production image Image courtesy the artist and White Cube, London © the artist Photograph: Runa Islam
Runa Islam Assault (still) 2008 16mm colour film, silent Image courtesy the artist and White Cube, London © the artist
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RUNA ISLAM



19 August - 21 November 2010

The MCA presents British artist Runa Islam’s first solo exhibition in Australia. Islam was born in Bangladesh (1970) and grew up in London, where she lives today. She is renowned for her 16mm and 35mm film works that explore the history and aesthetics of cinema. Islam adopts a range of approaches to displaying her works from single, double and split screens, to sculptural enclosures; and cites experimental and expanded cinema as influential for her practice.

Runa Islam introduces audiences to a selection of the artist’s 16mm film installations from the past 7 years which experiment with light, colour, movement and abstraction. A major new work, Magical Consciousness (2010), co-commissioned by the MCA and the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (MACM) is featured. An immersive cinematic experience, Runa Islam is an exhibition about the act of viewing and the possibilities of cinema.

Runa Islam has participated in various exhibitions and biennales internationally, and was nominated for the 2008 Turner Prize.


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