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URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/fact-sara-sadik/
SUMMARY:FACT: FACT: Sara Sadik
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nSARA SADIK\n\nSara Sadik presents XENON PALACE CHAMPIONS
 HIP (2023)\, an interactive film and installation environment that reflec
 ts on brotherhood and belonging\, exploring the relationship between alien
 ation\, ambition\, and securing your legacy.\n\n\nFACT Liverpool\n88 Wood 
 Street\nL1 4DQ\nView on Google Maps\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSara Sadik explores l
 oneliness\, love and empowerment through a fantastical blend of film\, ins
 tallation and games\; creating worlds that sit between fiction and documen
 tary. In XENON PALACE CHAMPIONSHIP (2023)\, Sara creates a space that al
 lows groups of men who experience prejudice and cultural alienation in eve
 ryday life to escape and find solidarity through the shared space and expe
 riences of the Xenon Palace hookah lounge.\nIn her work\, Sara often focus
 es on the unique sub-cultures developed by diasporas\, particularly in her
  homeland of France. Born from a sense of displacement and altering behavi
 ours to better assimilate into a new culture\, fashion\, music and languag
 e become symbols that connect individuals and create new collective identi
 ties and belonging. Here\, Sara deconstructs and reimagines these symbols 
 within a fictional world\, as we follow a group of men gathered in a place
  that can hold the multiplicity of their own selves.\nThe film joins a gro
 up of men as they gather for a gaming tournament\, all playing for the key
 s to the Xenon Palace - a place created to escape reality. Following lone-
 wolf protagonist Émile-Samory\, we experience the passion\, drive and sen
 se of belonging that the palace instils\, but also the dependence on and s
 ocial currency placed in being a part of this space. Echoing the haven of 
 the palace\, Sara has transformed the gallery into a magical hookah lounge
 . Here\, you can take part in the gameplay as the narrative of the film un
 folds\, using custom-built hookah hoses to train and battle Xenons - fanta
 stical creatures that emerge from wisps of smoke. As the tournament builds
  and tensions heighten\, Émile-Samory reflects on brotherhood and belongi
 ng\, highlighting the complex relationship between alienation\, ambition\,
  and securing your legacy.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
LOCATION:FACT\, 88 Wood Street\, Liverpool\, L1 4DQ\, Liverpool\, United Ki
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