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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                                                                                                                Be Patient 

 Kate Pendry

Be Patient is a rare artwork. It is simple yet profound, easy to understand yet complex, deeply personal yet not private. The viceral symbolism of barbed wire is used to depict a letter of rejection from the Norwegian immigration department. The letter it scaled to giant, razor sharp size to emphasise the brutality of such bureaucratic formulae.

Simply put, if you are waiting for asylum, your life is not only on hold, but by extension in the balance. The letter you receive can mean life or death. The banality of bureaucratic office speak comes through in all its indifferent cruelty with the soundtrack accompanying the piece, indeed one could call it the titular soundtrack. The constant, almost torturous refrain, be patient, which forms the bassline of undermanned governmental telcommunications.

In the context of Qaradakis piece, this mantra can feel like telling an inmate on death row to be patient while he or she waits for execution or reprieve. That notwithstanding the work contains one the main characteristics inherent in all Qaradakis output... great humilty, humanity and heart.

The work is, in its truest and humblest sense, monumental.
  • 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