BROKEN PATHS
16.09.23–08.10.23 - Solo exhibition at die PutteThe exhibition BROKEN PATHS brings together four works by Raisan Hameed in which he shows fragments of his own history and thus opens up a view of complex geopolitical contexts.
The photographic series Risse shows torn pieces of wallpaper, small cracks in walls and stones. The pictures were taken in his family home in Mosul and poetically describe the beginning of a drastic change and destruction. The photographs were shown for the first time as part of his diploma thesis Zer-Störung at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig. At PUTTE, they enter into an exchange with a later work Das Leiter, which deals with the still acute and sometimes deadly situation at the European border. People use ladders to try to climb over the border fence to Hungary. A loudspeaker announces in Arabic that anyone who crosses the fence without permission may be shot. The installation Déja vu shows an image of foaming water. Raisan Hameed took the photo in Bremen. In the installation, the water literally sloshes towards the visitors. For Hameed, the image represents his personal experience of flight, but as part of the artistic work it can be read from many perspectives. The artist developed a fourth work especially for the exhibition and installed it in front of the PUTTE.
All four works interlock and provide selective insights into current issues. The focus is less on the artist's personal history and more on the discussion about our present, which is changing rapidly due to political crises and is undergoing a noticeable transformation.
Curation: Elisabeth Würzl & Michael Schlecht
The photographic series Risse shows torn pieces of wallpaper, small cracks in walls and stones. The pictures were taken in his family home in Mosul and poetically describe the beginning of a drastic change and destruction. The photographs were shown for the first time as part of his diploma thesis Zer-Störung at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig. At PUTTE, they enter into an exchange with a later work Das Leiter, which deals with the still acute and sometimes deadly situation at the European border. People use ladders to try to climb over the border fence to Hungary. A loudspeaker announces in Arabic that anyone who crosses the fence without permission may be shot. The installation Déja vu shows an image of foaming water. Raisan Hameed took the photo in Bremen. In the installation, the water literally sloshes towards the visitors. For Hameed, the image represents his personal experience of flight, but as part of the artistic work it can be read from many perspectives. The artist developed a fourth work especially for the exhibition and installed it in front of the PUTTE.
All four works interlock and provide selective insights into current issues. The focus is less on the artist's personal history and more on the discussion about our present, which is changing rapidly due to political crises and is undergoing a noticeable transformation.
Curation: Elisabeth Würzl & Michael Schlecht
„Ich erwartete, dass das Meer Gedichte, Geheimnisse und Briefe in Flaschenpost an unbekannte Adressen tragen würde. Ich fand es nass von den Tränen der Reisenden...“
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