Chalk Drawings
January 14–February 6, 2022
Kottbusser Strasse 10
10999 Berlin
Germany
Hours: Tuesday–Sunday 2–7pm
presse@bethanien.de
For his exhibition at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Aziz Hazara is presenting works which are assembled as a multimedia exhibition across two floors. On the ground floor, Rehearsal introduces the sonic environment of Kabul. The sound piece is accompanied by a diptych photograph, Chalk Drawings.
On the second floor, Hazara engages the sonic dimension to cast rituality and daily life against the context of an ongoing conflict. The self-flagellating, mutilated, violated body is an archive of the counternarrative of war; a palimpsest of scars and trauma; a testimony to endurance, resistance and survival.
“The visual exploration of my works takes shape across a variety of artistic media, from participatory installations to soundscape, from video to photography, from text to programming languages. My interest in questions of memory, archive, surveillance, the panopticon and the politics of representation is deeply entrenched in geopolitics and the never-ending conflict that afflicts my home country Afghanistan. The relevance of such issues, however, overcomes geographical specificities and appeals to a contemporary condition that is shared globally.” —Aziz Hazara
For more information on the artist, please visit bethanien.de.
Aziz Hazara currently holds a KfW Stiftung scholarship in the International Studio Programme at Künstlerhaus Bethanien. Other KfW Stiftung scholarship holders participating in the International Studio Programme in 2021/2022 are Daniel Lie (Indonesia/ Brazil), Hamlet Lavastida (Cuba), and Gaёlle Choisne (France/Haiti).
KfW Stiftung is an independent, non-profit foundation established in October 2012. Its goal is to create space for different ways of thinking and diversity in the economy, ecology, society and culture. Promoting cultural diversity in the field of arts and culture is one of its top priorities. To foster intercultural dialogue, KfW Stiftung offers artists from Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia the opportunity to live and work in Berlin for twelve months and to participate in Künstlerhaus Bethanien’s International Studio Programme.
For further information about the exhibition, please contact presse [at] bethanien.de. For further information concerning the programme, please contact: Daniela Leykam, Programme Manager Arts & Culture, KfW Stiftung.
