S H W A N DLER QARADAKI
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Title: Metamorphosis (utsnitt)
Duration: 02'45 min. (seamless loop)


Metamorphosis                                                                                                                                                                  Kalle Risan Sandås
The video-animation Metamorphosis shows an alternating process between two figures: a photographic selv-portrait and a copy of the self-portrait made up of Arabic caligraphy. The figures slowly and simultaneously merge into the other, from self-portrait to caligraphy filled silhouette, from silhouette to self-portrait. In this metamorphic process the self potrait turns into a scray shape, my eyes look like that of a grasshopper or an insect. The symbol of the stranger, the Other (Arab or Muslim), as an insect or pest, strikes me. Shwan Dler Qaradaki´s art approaches problems concerning identities in a multi-cultural world. As a liberal Muslim of Kurdish descent, but after ten years in Norway he finds himself caught between possibilities, traditions, break-ups and prejudices. Who is Shwan Dler Qaradaki? A young, promising artist? A well intergated immigrant, or a Kurd who never can be Norwegian? A type of identity we don´t yet have a name for, and maybe we don´t need to give it a name either? Maybe we can find the answers to these questions in his work, a hard-hitting yet sensitive expression from a very interesting artist.

  • 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