Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Defeating forgetfulness…

The approach of the past in a lost place and time is a difficult project. The art is able to play an important role in what we call memory. Instead of facing the past of a person or even of a whole nation as a constant wound, it is a wish to turn it into a source of experience, ideas and knowledge.

Memory is what we need to understand the today. It is as an arrow on the arch, the more you push it back , the further it reaches the today and the future.

This kind of approach of the lost past in the art of engraving for a political refugee from Kurdistan is the practicing of the memory, against forgetfulness, it is a confirmation about today and a searching field for tomorrow. In this way the art becomes part of his psychological resistance and it functions as a cure.

September 2008
Serhad

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