Rushdi Anwar

Question 1

Two artworks?

Answer 1

Hope and sorrow of displacement

Hanging issues

Question 2

What is hope and sorrow of displacement about?

Answer 2

Anwar addresses the complexities of war, conflict, displacement by drawing on personal experiences and memories.
Shows dislocation, loss and pain

Question 3

Materials used in hope and sorrow of displacement

Answer 3

Burnt wooden chairs, black oxide pigment, charcoal and ash

Question 4

Colour and techniques of hope and sorrow of displacement

Answer 4

Chairs are piled in an ascending order and not in any certain order linking to the idea of distress and trauma
Tragic themes emphasised through black tones evoking emotion and lack of happiness. Seeing deconstructed mundane household items is confronting

Question 5

What is hanging issues about? Year?

Answer 5

Hanging Issues reveals the complicated issues of political events, offering many perspectives on what it is to live in a conflict zone. It aims to be an emotional experience. It deals with sensitive moments in political history, touching moments of suffering and hostility, and beautiful moments of survival and renewal. 2012

Question 6

Materials?

Answer 6

Documentary photographs, handmade Thai paper
60 panels of documentary photographs embedded in handmade Thai Paper (Kada Saa). Each panel contains a segment of a printed documentary photograph of political events related to the recent political history of Kurdistan. One group are re-photographed images sourced from public news footage and mass media that depict a range of political events in Kurdistan from the 1970s-1990s

Fragile, sensual and temporary qualities. The surface of the works aim to reference damaged human skin as well as the perceived view of tumultuous political events.

Question 7

Techniques and what the convey

Answer 7

By bringing together Photography and materiality of paper, texture, mark-making, he highlights the subjectivity of photography and the objectivity of paper, creates a connection between viewer and subject matter. The context of the works still has a strong connection and continues into a political minefield of present time. The issues create bitterness. As a material, it has a warm feeling, a delicacy and an apparent fragility- transforming the The content of bitterness and suffering. The paper acts as a metaphor for recovery, gentleness and care.

Question 8

Frames?

Answer 8

Structural, cultural, post modern

World, artwork, artist