Shwan Dler Qaradaki (KUR)
Kurdish artist Shwan Dler Qaradaki works with various techniques, including drawing, printing, painting, photography, installation and video. His work deals with identity problems in a multiethnic and multicultural world, but also with their potential and possibilities. Tradition and prejudice are also key points of his artistic work.
His video “Salt Kiss” is a very personal report of 12 years on the way as refugees. Shwan Dler Qaradaki (KUR) lives in Norway today.
Shwan Dler Qaradaki (KUR)
To my children
The movie To My Children is based on the artist’s own experience of escaping war. Shwan Dler Qaradaki started working on this mixed media piece after visiting his family which remained in Iraqi Kurdistan. What is left behind and what passed on? This poetic narration touches the very human side of immigration, a perspective that public debate often misses, to this day.
See www.tomychildren.no/eng/trailer for more info on the movie. Artists website: www.qaradaki.com
Written and directed by Shwan Dler Qaradaki. Produced by Vibeke Christensen, Kulturbyrået Mesén AS
Dramaturgy and Editing: Inge-Lise Langfeldt. Translation and script: Kate Pendry
Voice-over: Benjamin Lønne Røsler. Sound design: Sigrun Merete Mongstad. Music and composer: Nils Økland band
Courtesy of the artists, all rights reserved
