Raisan Hameed: Embers of Narratives
In the organizer's words:
Based on personal experiences, Raisan Hameed deals with the connections between war, migration and memory. Using private and public, analog and digital image archives, he explores the impact of historical and geopolitical events on individual and collective history.
In Embers of Narratives , the artist examines the traces of destruction left behind by violent conflicts in Iraq and in his home town of Mosul. The expansive installation consists of printed fabric panels showing images of landscapes, houses and people. Hameed uses screenshots that he finds on Google Street View. In several steps, he alienates his source material and processes the surface to create fire-like effects. It is left to chance which image elements become visible in the end and how the image narrative changes as a result of the artist's intervention in the material. In this process, destruction becomes a metaphor for the cycle of transience and new beginnings.
Hameed has scoured the entire map of Iraq on Google Maps and compiled an archive of hundreds of screenshots. This tells of war, conflict and the destruction of the environment, but also of reconstruction, everyday life and identity. In Iraq, the 360-degree views are not uploaded to the platform by the company itself, but by private individuals. Hameed is particularly interested in the errors and empty spaces he encounters during his research, such as pixelated or black areas.
As part of the exhibition, Hameed will present his book Pixels of Memories, in which he has compiled parts of this archive. The date of the artist talk is yet to be announced.
Raisan Hameed works with the media of photography and film, among others. He studied at the Mosul University College of Fine Arts and at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig. Embers of Narratives is the final work of his master student studies with Prof. Tina Bara. Hameed has been represented in numerous national and international exhibitions and was nominated for the Prix Photoforum Biel in 2024.
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