{"id":9355,"title":"The Situation Is Fluid","dimensions":"35 x 25.5 cm","date_begin":"2012-01-01","material":"enamel on metal","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":76,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection MHKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"M00210","stream_count_app":34,"permalink":"the-situation-is-fluid","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":"Ayman Ramadan","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","description_tr":"","short_description_tr":"","mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Print","nl":"Prent","fr":"Epreuve"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/020/209/large/ayman.jpg?1389107136","poster_credits":"(c)image: M HKA","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Situation Is Fluid\u003c/i\u003e (quoting the White House's initial reaction to the revolution of January 25th 2011) consists of signboards made by hand, whereupon this title appears in English and Arabic. They hark back to bilingual street signs.\u0026nbsp; This deliberately chosen title phrase presents as pregnant with meaning, but really is an empty statement that, according to the artist, is just as bereft of content as most other diplomatic/political utterances. And yet, Ramadan has made of this a signal. A signal first spread via friends who made photographs of the sign worldwide in a place of their choosing and now by showing enamel plates at different spots throughout the exhibition space.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Situation Is Fluid\u003c/i\u003e (een statement van het Witte Huis over de Egyptische situatie kort na de revolutie van 25 januari 2011) bestaat uit handmatig gefabriceerde borden met deze zin in het Engels en Arabisch. Ze verwijzen naar straatnamen. Deze bewust gekozen zin lijkt betekenisvol, maar eigenlijk is het een lege uitspraak, die volgens de kunstenaar even inhoudsloos als de meeste andere diplomatieke, politieke uitingen. Toch heeft Ayman Ramadan er een signaal van gemaakt. Een signaal dat eerst verspreid werd via vrienden die er over heel de wereld foto’s van maakten, nu door de emailplaten op verschillende plekken in een tentoonstellingsruimte op te hangen.\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Situation Is Fluid\u003c/i\u003e (une déclaration de la Maison-Blanche sur la situation en Égypte peu de temps après la Révolution du 25 janvier 2011) se compose d’assiettes confectionnées de manière artisanale qui portent chacune une inscription en anglais et en arabe. Elles renvoient à des noms de rue. Si cette phrase sciemment choisie semble significative, elle est au fond creuse et aussi dénuée de sens d’après l’artiste que la plupart des autres expressions diplomatiques et politiques. Néanmoins, Ayman Ramadan en a fait un signal. Un signal diffusé dans un premier temps par des amis qui l’ont photographié tout autour de la planète et à présent par des plaques en émail dans différents lieux de l’espace d’exposition.\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":2262,"name":"Ayman Ramadan","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}