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.
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.