Berlin – The exhibition the “Flying Carpet“, by the artist Salah Saouli, is taking place at the Art-Lab Berlin, Germany,  from 27 October to 06 November.
The exhibition is part of the “Ortstermin Moabit”, Berlin programme.
The flying carpet presents a legendary and magical means of transportation that allows humans to leave their usual surroundings and travel to the realm of the unreal and mythological. It links “other spaces” of the imaginary and utopian on one hand and the real and profane on the other. These “other spaces” appear as places where alternative worlds can be thought of, existing outside of time, in opposition to the world of the real.
Linking these two oppositional worlds the carpet presents a mobility that has been transported from the sphere of the ordinary to the sphere of imagination. This idea of the link stands at the centre of the work.