ABSOLUTE VETO
Absolute Veto, 2015
Installation: ink on wall
Cooperation with: Johannes Høie
Installation views: Kunstnerens Hus & gallery Kunstplass, Oslo
Photo credit: Shwan Dler Q. & Christina Leithe Hansen
What does it feel like to lose? How does it feel to think that your family risks being lynched by the most brutal terrorist group in the world? How does it feel to sit and see certain war images on your PC screen from the safety of your living room in Norway? The project concerns the will to ‘win back’ what one has lost; it is an insistent attempt at not giving up. Regaining control. Reconquering. To reach this goal, Johannes Høie and Shwan Dler Qaradaki ‘attack’ Kunstplass 10 with wall drawings. The gallery becomes a battle-zone where the truth slowly comes into view and confronts us. Visual material found on the Internet plays its part alongside personal, subjective narratives and approaches to the issue. The process is based on freehand drawing and improvisation in combination with material unearthed from the net, resulting in a unique, ephemeral work, location-specific for this particular occasion.
Absolute Veto, 2015
Installation: ink on wall
Cooperation with: Johannes Høie
Installation views: Kunstnerens Hus & gallery Kunstplass, Oslo
Photo credit: Shwan Dler Q. & Christina Leithe Hansen
What does it feel like to lose? How does it feel to think that your family risks being lynched by the most brutal terrorist group in the world? How does it feel to sit and see certain war images on your PC screen from the safety of your living room in Norway? The project concerns the will to ‘win back’ what one has lost; it is an insistent attempt at not giving up. Regaining control. Reconquering. To reach this goal, Johannes Høie and Shwan Dler Qaradaki ‘attack’ Kunstplass 10 with wall drawings. The gallery becomes a battle-zone where the truth slowly comes into view and confronts us. Visual material found on the Internet plays its part alongside personal, subjective narratives and approaches to the issue. The process is based on freehand drawing and improvisation in combination with material unearthed from the net, resulting in a unique, ephemeral work, location-specific for this particular occasion.
