S H W A N DLER QARADAKI
  • Mixed Media
    • HALO OF SHAME
    • The Golden Wish
    • QARADAKI AS PRIME MINISTER
    • Diaries From A Distance
    • Unknown Numbers
    • Heaven before a battle >
      • Heaven Before a Battle
    • You talking to me? OK, I'm going to paint your thinks
    • Be Patient
    • Property Painting - in collaboration with Fredrik Værslev
    • Between Faces
    • Absolutt Veto in collaboration with Johannes Høie
    • Similarity, No Guarantee
    • You die so slowly you think you’re alive
    • Mixed Media
  • BIOGRAPHY
  • Film and video
    • Sharp As A Knife
    • The Tattooed Sun
    • TO MY CHILDREN
    • SALT KISS (Part I)
    • SALT KISS (Part II)
    • SALT KISS (Part III)
    • Russian Rulette
    • NAZDAR
    • Norwegian Code
    • Happy To Be One of The Masse
    • ZORBAS DANCE IN SNIPETORPSTREET 27
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Absolutt Veto 
in collaboration with Johannes Høie

What does it feel like to lose? (Shwan is originally a political refugee from Iraqi Kurdistan.) 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. Johannes Høie and Shwan Dler Qaradaki are to ‘attack’ Kunstplass 10 with wall drawings. The gallery is to become a battle-zone where the truth slowly comes into view and confronts us. Visual material found on the Internet will play 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, and will result in a unique, ephemeral work, location-specific on this one occasion. 

The artists intend to use the gallery space as a platform to criticise, engage and contribute to a current, but little-questioned, social debate.

  • Mixed Media
    • HALO OF SHAME
    • The Golden Wish
    • QARADAKI AS PRIME MINISTER
    • Diaries From A Distance
    • Unknown Numbers
    • Heaven before a battle >
      • Heaven Before a Battle
    • You talking to me? OK, I'm going to paint your thinks
    • Be Patient
    • Property Painting - in collaboration with Fredrik Værslev
    • Between Faces
    • Absolutt Veto in collaboration with Johannes Høie
    • Similarity, No Guarantee
    • You die so slowly you think you’re alive
    • Mixed Media
  • BIOGRAPHY
  • Film and video
    • Sharp As A Knife
    • The Tattooed Sun
    • TO MY CHILDREN
    • SALT KISS (Part I)
    • SALT KISS (Part II)
    • SALT KISS (Part III)
    • Russian Rulette
    • NAZDAR
    • Norwegian Code
    • Happy To Be One of The Masse
    • ZORBAS DANCE IN SNIPETORPSTREET 27
  • Book
  • CV
  • Commissions
  • Contact