S H W A N DLER QARADAKI
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  • 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
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                                                                         PROPERTY PAINTINGS

Property Paintings, 2009
 
Photo of 12 paintings, size: 80 x 80 
Installation views: interiors of various private apartments around Oslo
Photo credit: Fredrik Værslev
Cooperation with: Fredrik Værslev

Property Paintings takes as its starting point a several hundred years old Norwegian painterly tradition. The project investigates the possibilities of the social-realistic painting as a potential moderator for the Norwegian social class, and as a symbol of pride in relation to their property and display of personal taste Historically, the “property-paintings” have been very much influenced by class issues, where economy was decisive in matters of choice about skilled painters employment, from the finest ones dealing with landscape and architecture, to “door-to-door” painters whose compensation consisted of food and a place to live during their commissioned painting process. In order to investigate this tradition, while also exploring the possibilities of its redefinition and continuation, 12 house owners were invited to participate in the project – with an idea of each of them receiving one finished and framed painting free of charge.

​The house owners also choose size, placement, and framing for their paintings. In return, they are asked to have the painting photographed in its new setting, whereas the artists solely decide the amount of interior information. In contrast to the tradition of “property-paintings”, one very skilled painter invests the same precision and effort into each painting and home, where the selection of house owners stretch from factory workers, to stockbrokers and art collectors. And where all forms of profession, origin and religion is flat lined through art. The outcome of the project is a selection of 12 interiors with 12 house owners from different statuses, now presented as 12 photographs and 12 private installations.


  • 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