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Eating Grass
Edith-Marie Pasquier talks to inIVA Director Gilane Tawadros and artist Alia Syed about their experience of working together.
“I was thirty minutes late as I couldn't find inIVA’s offices in Rivington Street and I arrived disgruntled clutching a plastic bag full of films”, laughs Alia Syed remembering her first meeting with Gilane Tawadros, Director of inIVA. “It must have been the films that saved me. Steve McQueen, a friend of mine, suggested I showed them my work, as I was looking for new audiences and the gallery seemed an interesting space away from cinema”. Within ten months inIVA (Institute of International Visual Arts) was producing Syed’s first solo touring exhibition, ‘Jigar’, derived from the Urdu word for ‘friend’ or ‘lover’, bringing together work made over the past fifteen years and leading to a collaboration with the organisation that was to last a further two years, culminating in the production of Syed’s new 16mm film, Eating Grass. “On a personal level, Syed’s work really resonated for me”, recalls Gilane Tawardros. “I think most striking of all, apart from the work holding the ability to be amazed and carrying a distinctive and powerful voice, it came from someone who knew how to make films, I see so...
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