Embers of Narratives, سرديات الجمر
2023-Ongoing
„Exploring the Cycle of Destruction and Transience through Thermographic Art“
Experimenting with different Termo tools.
Hameed discovered that he could create shapes (images through flames) that looked like traces of fireassociated with places that had experienced war and destruction, places that he often visited as a child. Such as images from his hometown of Mosul. He gets these pictures from Google Street-View images. Through this process of investigation and by creating an abstraction, the function and narrative of the images are being changed. Hameed sees it as a cycle.
Destruction is only one point in the cycle, it has to do with temporality and transience, which are hidden within it.
by useing screenshots from Google images of places he cannot visit.
He prints them with a thermal printer and adds fire elements by hand, making many areas of the image invisible and creating a black abstract surface.
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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The Installation 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.
Installation:
Sound 00:41, Video 04:00, Leiter 3,60 x 1,20 cm, Text.
Note: this sound is played in the room next to the ladder
Mossul Dream 2020
Since I was fifteen years old, until age 21
I have always dreamed of a strange dream, namely that I fly from my bed very high up, my body without movement,
the air rises and my eyes look down. My soul is completely free.
Then I watch my city at night from above.
There is not much light, the darkness dominated the city, but also peace, silence and security.
I watched my family and my neighbors mainly sleeping.
I got up and talked to my family and friends about the details of the dream
Some laugh and say only a dream, others say you will go away one day and watch us from a distance..
Heights await you, do not be afraid of them
I don‘t know if this dream has any impact on my real life
I ask myself and always remember this dream.
is it death?
what is below?
what is above?
so far I have not found a suitable explanation.
Now I see my city destroyed from the war and I see it from afar...
I have always dreamed of a strange dream, namely that I fly from my bed very high up, my body without movement,
the air rises and my eyes look down. My soul is completely free.
Then I watch my city at night from above.
There is not much light, the darkness dominated the city, but also peace, silence and security.
I watched my family and my neighbors mainly sleeping.
I got up and talked to my family and friends about the details of the dream
Some laugh and say only a dream, others say you will go away one day and watch us from a distance..
Heights await you, do not be afraid of them
I don‘t know if this dream has any impact on my real life
I ask myself and always remember this dream.
is it death?
what is below?
what is above?
so far I have not found a suitable explanation.
Now I see my city destroyed from the war and I see it from afar...
C-Prints Kodak, Mossul 1993-94 / Leipzig 2022
These photos of the family pictures were damaged in one of the wars that took place in Iraq, they fell from the wall and the glass took the layers of the photograph. My family kept these photos in a small box, and many years later I got these photos.
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