Enad Marouf

AND NOW IT IS NIGHT

Night has a sense of staging: As thoughts spill into the pillow, memories, fantasies or doubts submerge our thinking. People come in proximity or distance themselves in their dens. A process of transformation and change is at play. And Now It Is Night explores queer memory, loss and desire. Movement, text and sound are overlaid and fragmented. Revealing a nonlinear story, set in an architectural installation that is reminiscent of the old city of Damascus at night.

During his residency at K3, Enad Marouf researches memory, its temporality and how memories are embodied through poetry, gesture and image. He aims to develop a practice of fragmentation, with concentration on queer Narratives and histories from the Middle East. Shifting questions of straightforward identity politics towards a process of embodiment.

^{Concept, Choreography, Text: Enad Marouf | Co-choreography, performance: Arad Inbar, Jao Moon, Anton Obukhivskyi, Samuel Pereira | Installation: Enad Marouf | Architectural supervision, Fabrication: Jascha Kretschmann| Light: Jacqueline Sobiszewski | Music: Bell Towers | Costumes: Grzegorz Matlag | Production management: Florian Greß}

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Enad Marouf

is a Syrian-German performance and video artist living in Berlin. He holds an MA in Choreography and Performance from the Institute of Applied Theatre Studies in Giessen. His solo works and collaborations have been shown at the Athens Biennale, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Sophiensælen, Centre Français de Damas, Tate Modern, Art Institute of Chicago and Shedhalle Zurich, among others.