When you take the first step towards the unknown, you are engulfed by the darkness of uncertainty. Co-existence is possible only in the face of the unrecognised. The unknown language is a tangled mass through which you penetrate with despair. It is a structure of sense and nonsense, an architecture of traps and a source of endless uncertainty. The story you tell contains a record of fear and hope.

Aneta Szylak and Hiwa K., fragment taken from "The Darkness Wounded" published at www.przemo-wojciechowski.com

Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.
Theodor Adorno

But we are meaning in the sense that we are the element in which significations can be produced and circulate.
Jean-Luc Nancy


The concept of Estrangement developed through a series of discussions and collaborative projects between Iraqi artist Hiwa K. and Polish curator Aneta Szylak as an attempt to create a form for mutual translation and collaborative work that is not restricted to one cultural format.

Sunday, June 15, 2008

Estrangement went to Halabja

Estrangement Team and artists from Sulaimany went to visit Halabja, the site of the genocide of Kurds. March 15-17, 1988 brought horrible events aimed by Saddam regime to estinguish Kurdish population in the region. We spoke in Art Institute in Halabja with the eye witness and Anfal survivor Mr. Rafiq Layak, today the Institute's Director.




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