Exhibition

Labor Berlin 9: Paola Yacoub

kiss the black stones

Sat, Mar 24–Mon, May 7, 2012
Sat, Mar 24, 2012
11 am
Sun, Mar 25, 2012
11 am
Mon, Mar 26, 2012
11 am
Wed, Mar 28, 2012
11 am
Thu, Mar 29, 2012
11 am
Fri, Mar 30, 2012
11 am
Sat, Mar 31, 2012
11 am
Sun, Apr 1, 2012
11 am
Mon, Apr 2, 2012
11 am
Wed, Apr 4, 2012
11 am
Thu, Apr 5, 2012
11 am
Fri, Apr 6, 2012
11 am
Sat, Apr 7, 2012
11 am
Sun, Apr 8, 2012
11 am
Mon, Apr 9, 2012
11 am
Wed, Apr 11, 2012
11 am
Thu, Apr 12, 2012
11 am
Fri, Apr 13, 2012
11 am
Sat, Apr 14, 2012
11 am
Sun, Apr 15, 2012
11 am
Mon, Apr 16, 2012
11 am
Wed, Apr 18, 2012
11 am
Thu, Apr 19, 2012
11 am
Fri, Apr 20, 2012
11 am
Sat, Apr 21, 2012
11 am
Sun, Apr 22, 2012
11 am
Mon, Apr 23, 2012
11 am
Wed, Apr 25, 2012
11 am
Thu, Apr 26, 2012
11 am
Fri, Apr 27, 2012
11 am
Sat, Apr 28, 2012
11 am
Sun, Apr 29, 2012
11 am
Mon, Apr 30, 2012
11 am
Tue, May 1, 2012
11 am
Wed, May 2, 2012
11 am
Thu, May 3, 2012
11 am
Fri, May 4, 2012
11 am
Sat, May 5, 2012
11 am
Sun, May 6, 2012
11 am
Mon, May 7, 2012
11 am
Wed – Mon and on holidays 11 – 19 h | Free admission
Paola Yacoub, „Fallen Black Stones“, © Courtesy the artist

Shortly after the Lebanese civil war, Paola Yacoub worked as an archeologist and artist at the dig in Bey 002 in the heart of Beirut. She combines these experiences with her photographic practice of the last fifteen years – complemented with new works dealing with a region in eastern Turkey.

The rock there is black, as black as the walls in the nearby city of Diyarbakir. These "Baetyli" – literally meaning "inhabited by God" – were considered sacred. But is a black rock a meteorite, a lunar stone or a block of basalt? The creation of the rocks leads to a path of speculation which reaches its zenith with Antonin Artaud, who addressed the old myth of the ancient “rock God” Elagabalus and his great admirer, the Roman emperor Heliogabalus in his essay "Heliogabalus, or the Crowned Anarchist".


Curated in cooperation with Corinne Diserens.


Paola Yacoub, born in Beirut, has been living in Berlin since she came here on a DAAD scholarship in 2004. Her works have been shown at various locations, including the Kunst-Werke Berlin and the Venice Biennial.


Please also take a look at the film:


In Cooperation with Berliner Künstlerprogramm/DAAD


Das Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD