This Year There Were Very Few Fireworks (Silent Fire/Works Rhapsody)
3-phrase video installation
Solo exhibition at De Aanschouw, Rotterdam, 2020
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Chapter 1
color, silent, 4’30” on loop
Chapter 2
color, silent, 8’20” on loop
Chapter 3
color, silent, 30’00” on loop
Fire Works, 2020Participatory event, slide projection (on loop), Digital video (on loop), found objects
Installation view at Royal Academy of Arts The Hague, The Netherlands
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Participatory event - balloon poking as a collective gesture that produces a sound reminiscent of the fireworks explosion as well as the gunshots in a war zone.
View of after-event at the Royal Academy of Arts The Hague
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Fire Works, 2020
(visual poetry with slide projection, on loop)
Dark night
fireworks horizontally deployed
from just around the corner
of where i escaped
from fear but landed at estrangement
invisible sparks with bombing sounds and colours
smoke
gets into the eyes of innocent fighters
in the town where I grew up
LOUD
BOMBING
SOUND
EXPLODE
BURN
BLOSSOM
Fire works
working at its best
i heard them in the dark
i saw them from afar
i even smelt them
in my imagination
in the speechlessness in the light
of the harsh reality of the war.
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Fire Works, 2020
Digital video, 3 minutes, sound, Television
Video : https://vimeo.com/391836429