LAST CHANCE Khaled Jarada: Non Key Frame

The title of this exhibition evokes a notion that originates from the world of the moving image. Key frames are those that define a scene in a film; they set its starting as well as ending point, they are typically the most important frames and so they are the ones into which creators put more thought and spend more time developing. Non-key frames are intermediates, coming between two crucial moments and defined only through an external reference. In this solo show Khaled Jarada finds a similar hierarchy in specific modes of historiography, where history is reduced to key moments, key figures, key geographies, and key cultures; his work refutes that rigid hierarchy, instead elevating those devalued and mundane moments, places, objects, and figures to become worthy of display, appreciation, and idealization. His figures appear imbalanced, anxious, and out of place. The in-betweenness in these works is spatial as well as temporal …