{"id":1850,"date":"2024-09-24T17:17:04","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T09:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/?post_type=exhibitions&p=1850"},"modified":"2024-09-25T11:04:54","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T03:04:54","slug":"aziz-hazara","status":"publish","type":"exhibitions","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/exhibitions\/aziz-hazara\/","title":{"rendered":"Aziz Hazara: Bow Echo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Aziz Hazara, Bow Echo,<\/em> 2019, production still from 5 channel installation with sound, duration 4:17 mins, image courtesy the artist & Experimenter, Kolkata, India.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In the artists own words: \u201cThe work has been inspired by my own experience of the recurring horrors of suicide bomb attacks that have unsettled the city of Kabul. They are a sort of \u2018horror game\u2019 and since 2001 have taken place in different parts of the city, becoming an integral part of its recent history\u2026 The question of how best to represent this history and its effect on the lives of individuals has been one of the most persistent questions during the making of this work. Very often, the idea of representation becomes a dilemma.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aziz Hazara, Bow Echo,<\/em> 2019, production still from 5 channel installation with sound, duration 4:17 mins, image courtesy the artist & Experimenter, Kolkata, India.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Growing up in Afghanistan, whose capital Kabul continues to be rocked by devastating suicide bombings, Aziz Hazara created a powerful work that speaks with searing simplicity of this ongoing horror that Afghanistan\u2019s population continues to endure, even under the Taliban rule established in 2021 that followed decades of international armed conflict.  Bow Echo<\/em> takes its title from a devastating weather storm that clusters powerful thunderstorms in a fast-moving straight line that can be hundreds of kilometres across, creating destructive cyclonic force winds that cause severe devastation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n

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Aziz Hazara, Bow Echo, 2019, 5 channel installation with sound, duration 4:17 mins, installation view, John Curtin Gallery, 2022. Photo by Brad Coleman.<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n \n<\/mimas-block>\n\n\n\n

Exhibition: <\/strong>10 February – 16 April 2023
Supported By:<\/strong> A Perth Festival event supported by Visual Arts Program Partner Wesfarmers Arts, and Lotterywest
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Presented as part of Perth Festival 2023, a celebration of the John Curtin Gallery\u2019s 25-year partnership with Perth Festival, However vast the darkness\u2026<\/em><\/strong> brings together a vivid and compelling season of three interconnected projects offering deep reflection and forceful protest of the inequities suffered by peoples across the globe. It features two major installations by Afghani artist Aziz Hazara, Aotearoa\/New Zealand artist Lisa Reihana and Meanjin\/Brisbane Aboriginal art collective proppaNOW. Together these artists champion truth-telling as the way to illuminate a path through the darkness of profound geopolitical tension and enduring oppression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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