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Hiwa A.Perdawood

I make paintings, photos, and drawings. By rejecting objective truth and global cultural narratives, I create an unprecedented situation in which the viewer is confronted with the conditioning of my own perception and is forced to reconsider my biassed stance.

My work urges society to renegotiate painting as being part of a reactive or, at times, autistic medium that comments on oppressing themes in our contemporary society. By exploring the concept of landscape in a nostalgic way, I investigate the dynamics of landscape, including the manipulation of its effects and the limits of spectacle based on our assumptions of what landscape means to society. Instead of presenting a true reality, an illusion is created to evoke the realms of society's imagination.

Moreover, I establish a link between the landscape’s reality and that imagined by its creator. These works focus on concrete questions that determine our existence. By applying abstraction, I create intense personal moments masterfully created by means of rules and omissions, acceptance and refusal, luring the viewer round and round in circles.

Furthermore, works does not refer to a recognisable form.The results are deconstructed to the extent that meaning is shifted and possible interpretations become multifaceted. I currently live and work in Erbil, which is located in southern Kurdistan (Iraq).

2006-2007 Fine Arts Institute at Erbil
2010-2011 College of Fine Arts, Salahaddin University
2014 Master of Fine Arts, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom

The Colours of War

"War is considered to be a ghost that vanishes all the beauties"

My latest art project show on 20th Feb 2020 - Erbil

Video Art
Installation
Painting

SEE PROJECT

you can download the Booklet of the show here

works

My artwork takes a critical view of social, political and cultural issues. In my work, I deconstruct the fairy tales, nursery rhymes, and lullabies that are part of our childhood and adult culture. Having engaged subjects as diverse as the civil rights movement and modernist architecture, my work reproduces familiar visual signs, arranging them into new conceptually layered pieces.

Often times these themes are combined into installations that feature mundane domestic objects painted blue, juxtaposed with whimsical objects, and often embellished with stenciled text. The color blue establishes a dream-like surreal quality, suggests notions of calmness and safety, and formally unifies the disparate objects in each installation. The texts provide clues to content and interpretation.

While I use a variety of materials and processes in each project my methodology is consistent. Although there may not always be material similarities between the different projects they are linked by recurring formal concerns and through the subject matter. The subject matter of each body of work determines the materials and the forms of the work.

Each project often consists of multiple works, often in a range of different media, grouped around specific themes and meanings. During research and production new areas of interest arise and lead to the next body of work.