Oliver Husain

Born in Frankfurt/Main, Germany, Oliver Husain studied film and media art in Offenbach, Germany and Gujarat, India. Today he lives and works in Toronto. Husain’s films and video works include music videos, 3-D-animations, performance and various forms of dance choreography. Shot in diverse locations including Germany, India, Indonesia and China, his films often combined multiple temporalities, forms of vision and often explore spatial tropes specific to filmic space. Husain describes his practice thus: “I often begin with a portrait of a person or place. The outcome is a video or film, a text or a textile; something foldable that can be stored away easily, or something standing on thin chopstick legs. Something that might collapse under the eyes of the viewer – in a film, this could be its fragile narrative structure. The viewers are left with holding up their side by themselves. In this way, I am constructing attractive traps