„A swimming pool without water is useless. Like a most beautiful country inhabited by the kindest sort of people – without peace.“
Concept, Photography and Art-Direction:
Rahman Hak-Hagir
Date / Location:
19th August 2017, Kabul, Afghanistan
WIth:
Wafiullah Popal
Naser Qayam
Mohammad Aref
Ghulam Nabe
Wafiullah Popal, Naser Qayam, Mohammad Aref and Ghulam Nabe are four survival Artists living and working in Kabul, Afghanistan.
THE MAKING OF KABULI SWIMMING POOL AND AFGHAN PEACE (2018)
12:30 Mins. full HD-Documentary
„A swimming pool without water is useless. Like a most beautiful country inhabited by the kindest sort of people – without peace.“
Concept and Art-Direction:
Rahman Hak-Hagir
Camera:
Mohammad Aref, Rahman Hak-Hagir
Performers:
Wafiullah Popal
Naser Qayam
Mohammad Aref
Ghulam Nabe
Wafiullah Popal, Naser Qayam, Mohammad Aref and Ghulam Nabe are four survival Artists living and working in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Kabul – Teheran: READOUT OF THE TWO CAPITALS
June 29th – 29th July 2018, Shalman Gallery, Teheran, IRAN
Curated by Fatimah Hossaini and Dr. Pejman Dadkhah
The ancient people believe that a quarter of four quarters of the Earth is inhabited, and three quarters of the water is flooded, and this quarter, called the fourth quarter of the city, from the north to the eastern line of the Seventh Line, and each part is called the climate. In every climate there is a civilization in which the kings of this property love it, and as every one of the ten droves, they glow upon it, and the kings also wage war on other parts. In each cases, the distance between each border is one step increments, and at every step there is an experience that can’t be at all. So the steps of the face of the image move and each one picks up his own image and sets it on to the other. And far from the rulers of the kings, they display the image of their climate in front of our eyes to experiment with this terrain in two climates. – Dr. Mohammad Reza Sharifzade / May 2018
Ten Afghan photographers and ten Iranian photographers with the view that each photographer shows a shot from his capital city ; These images can put the artist in the form of a painter who portrays a picture of a city, and this image can be a photographic documentary of Kabul’s streets, and perhaps a portrait of a scene or a picture in a more conceptual way. It can be documentary photography, art photography, photomontage, and even a portrait .
Artists from Afghanistan: Fatimah Hossaini, Tahmina Salim, Mahbooba Hasard, Mohammad Shahab Eslami, Naser Bayat, Farshad Usyan, Mohammad Musa Akbari, Nasser Turkmeni , Aryan Musleh, Dawood Hilmandi, Wasim Mirzaie , Rahman Hak-Hagir
Artists from Iran: Maryam Hansanpour , Najla Dadbar , Karin Kamrim Masihi , Kourosh Adim, Arman Estepanian, Majid Saaedi, Yurik Karim Masihi, Penman Dadkhah , Ehsan Rafati, Samad Ghorbanzadeh, Ali Mazarei, Mohammad Mohsenifar
OPENING: June 29th 2018 | Kabul – Teheran: READOUT OF THE TWO CAPITALS @Shalman Gallery, Teheran, IRAN