S H W A N DLER QARADAKI
  • BIOGRAPHY
  • FILM & 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
    • ZORBAS DANCE IN SNIPETORPSTREET 27
  • Mixed Media
    • Babel Confusion (upcoming)
    • HALO OF SHAME
    • The Golden Wish
    • QARADAKI AS PRIME MINISTER
    • Diaries From A Distance
    • Heaven before a battle
    • Unknown Numbers
    • Be Patient
    • Property Painting - in collaboration with Fredrik Værslev
    • You talking to me? OK, I'm going to paint your thinks
    • Absolutt Veto in collaboration with Johannes Høie
    • Between Faces
    • You die so slowly you think you’re alive
    • Mixed Media
  • TEXT
    • The Tattooed Sun, by Oda Bhar 2020
    • EN AURA AV FORNEDRELSE, av Arve Rød 2021
    • Experience and effect, by Synnøve Merie Vik 2018
    • QARADAKI AS PRIME MINISTER, by Kate Pendry 2016
    • The Golden Wish, by Line Ulekleiv 2020
    • Abrupt movements on the map, by Tommy Olsson 2013
    • The World Through A Prism
    • KURDISTAN UNDER THE SIGN OF THE FUTURE, BY MARKO STAMENKOVIC
    • You talking to me? OK, I'm going to paint your thinks 2013
    • TRACE OF A FRIENDSHIP by Kate Pendry
    • A letter from Adnan Hassanpour
  • Book
    • The Christmas Star​
    • Distance, in collaboration with Mette Karlsvik
  • Commissions
    • Between Faces
    • Vika Indiogo
    • Skien krisesenter
    • Grip Dagen
    • Internasjonalt Hus - Stavanger
  • Contact
                                                      HALO OF SHAME
 

Halo of Shame, 2021
There are mainly 3 works displayed in the exhibition
Title: A trip with my father in the town: Installation: video in a cart made of MDF
Title: My brother still whispers to me: Sound installation, sound designer: Merette Mongstad
Title: Sharp As A knife: cartridge cases and textile
Installation views: Kunstplass Contemporary Art, Oslo
Photo credit: Shwan Dler Qaradaki

​Language as a mode of communication in general, and one’s mother tongue in particular, make an important part of our existence, regardless of whether we live among our fellow native speakers, or in a foreign language community abroad. But how does it feel to be deprived of the possibility to use your own mother’s tongue as a minority in your own country under conditions of the ruling powers’ tyrannical oppression? It is a human right to speak one's own mother tongue. Through language we convey opinions, thoughts and feelings – in short, the opportunity to express ourselves. By depriving a person of their mother tongue, one also deprives them of a significant part of their identity, which in turn can lead to the concerned person’s alienation feeling, frustration, and the artificial construction of a cultural gap among individuals. Shwan Dler Qaradaki's solo exhibition Halo of Shame is based on his own experience of living under a dictatorship system in the 1980s Iraqi Kurdistan as a member of the minor Kurdish population, that used to be officially deprived of any possibility to communicate in their mother tongue, thus becoming exposed to a slow process of silencing and linguicide as a prelude to the bloody politics of mass extermination by genocide. 

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  • BIOGRAPHY
  • FILM & 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
    • ZORBAS DANCE IN SNIPETORPSTREET 27
  • Mixed Media
    • Babel Confusion (upcoming)
    • HALO OF SHAME
    • The Golden Wish
    • QARADAKI AS PRIME MINISTER
    • Diaries From A Distance
    • Heaven before a battle
    • Unknown Numbers
    • Be Patient
    • Property Painting - in collaboration with Fredrik Værslev
    • You talking to me? OK, I'm going to paint your thinks
    • Absolutt Veto in collaboration with Johannes Høie
    • Between Faces
    • You die so slowly you think you’re alive
    • Mixed Media
  • TEXT
    • The Tattooed Sun, by Oda Bhar 2020
    • EN AURA AV FORNEDRELSE, av Arve Rød 2021
    • Experience and effect, by Synnøve Merie Vik 2018
    • QARADAKI AS PRIME MINISTER, by Kate Pendry 2016
    • The Golden Wish, by Line Ulekleiv 2020
    • Abrupt movements on the map, by Tommy Olsson 2013
    • The World Through A Prism
    • KURDISTAN UNDER THE SIGN OF THE FUTURE, BY MARKO STAMENKOVIC
    • You talking to me? OK, I'm going to paint your thinks 2013
    • TRACE OF A FRIENDSHIP by Kate Pendry
    • A letter from Adnan Hassanpour
  • Book
    • The Christmas Star​
    • Distance, in collaboration with Mette Karlsvik
  • Commissions
    • Between Faces
    • Vika Indiogo
    • Skien krisesenter
    • Grip Dagen
    • Internasjonalt Hus - Stavanger
  • Contact