Exhibitions and museums
Basma al-Sharif's videos on belonging made conditional.
It was never really that good
- Soft Power
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About
A solo exhibition of two video installations by Basma al-Sharif at soft power. The title comes from a deliberate mistranslation of a line from Nino Ferrer's hit song Le Sud (1975), turning the song's melancholy over a lost paradise into a refusal of nostalgic forgetting. The works show how integration policy and neo-colonial promises of progress act as tools of ideological assimilation that make belonging conditional. The exhibition runs from 14.11. to 19.12.2026.
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Venue
Soft Power
Berlin
Artist
Basma al-SharifRarely
Genre
Video art exhibitionsUsually 2 a week
