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SOFIA HULTEN

* Nam June Paik exhibition - collage the film

* Fluxus - http://fluxusfoundation.com/exhibitions/flux-labyrinth-a-fluxus-gag-2/photos/

'Wall of Doors and of Possibilities’

Produced during a five weeks residency at Thread (the Anni and Josef Albers foundation), Sinthian, Senegal.

Series of 6 curtains doors. Size 90 x 200 cm. Cotton textile. Handsawn by Mariama Kante, in Sinthian. ‘Wall of Doors and of Possibilities’ is an ode to the colourful curtain doors of Sinthian houses, a village East of Senegal.

Each houses in the village have a curtain door to separate the outside to the inside. Their drawings and patterns are full of inventiveness and the use of colours is bold. The colour palette in this part of Senegal is very bright and in real contrast to the colour of nature but at the same time it works so beautifully together.

This installation is using coloured textile as seen in use throughout the village. The geometric elements are depicting my impressions to the village, the happiness, the people, nature and the bright colours.

The curtain door is a screen between the familiar and the foreign, the visible and the invisible. It is the entrance to another world, an invite to imagination and the source for multiple possibilities. It is a passage from the known to the unknown. With this in mind, I wanted to decontextualise them and create a screen, a wall of many doors and possibilities in between the village and nature to highlight our relation to nature and to the unknown on both sides. Located just outside the village, from one side, we can view the village and from the other side, view nature.

 ephemeral wall, floating in the wind, offers the possibility to view our relation to nature and to ourselves through a rite of passage.

Workshop ‘The Mask, The Letter, and Myself’, at @typojanchi in Seoul, South Korea With 15 students. 

Each student was asked to take photos of typographic signs and graphic elements that they like, from their local surroundings to re-interpret them and create a catalog of signs, which would become a new language and vision used to create a new pattern. The masks reflect their own stories and their relation to the world. Those masks are a reflection on their inner thoughts, their alter ego, their coat of arms. 

‘Love Has No Size’

Mural, 65 meter long on the outside wall of the French institute in Tunis, Tunisia.

‘Love Has No Size’ is a mural painting series, exploring the multiple human facets and love possibilities through a geometric work. “Art can die, a painting can disappear, but what matters, are the seeds that it sows on earth”, said Joan Miro. By painting in urban spaces, I wish to spread a simple and yet complex message of and about love in various parts of the world, to confront people with a universal message about beauty, possibilities and choices. 

Painting in urban spaces is a political act and an act of love.

Love Has No Size, sees no limit in space and location, it can be adapted to multiple formats and sizes. It is my personal strategy to escape reality, giving a space for colour and contemplation. 

* Tschabalala Self builds a singular style from the syncretic use of both painting and printmaking to explore ideas about the black female body. The artist constructs exaggerated depictions of female bodies using a combination of sewn, printed, and painted materials, traversing different artistic and craft traditions. The exaggerated biological characteristics of her figures reflect the Self’s own experiences and cultural attitudes toward race and gender. “The fantasies and attitudes surrounding the black female body are both accepted and rejected within my practice, and through this disorientation, new possibilities arise,” Self explains. “I am attempting to provide an alternative, and perhaps fictional, explanations for the voyeuristic tendencies towards the gendered and racialized body; a body which is both exalted and abject.”

Pussycat Project  https://www.pussyhatproject.com/our-story

* A global women’s movement created almost overnight. Millions of women, men and children at over 600 rallies in countries touching virtually every continent. Young and old, rich and poor. Educated and not, religious and secular. Straight and LGBTQ, every race and color. All wearing hand-made, knitted caps on a single day, awash in a sea of pink, arm-in-arm in solidarity for women’s rights and in protest against the rhetoric used toward women and minorities in the previous year’s state and federal elections.

And it all started with two sticks and a ball of yarn.

In late 2016, artist and design architect Jayna Zweiman was rehabbing from a serious injury. Unable to work or engage in strenuous physical activity, Jayna wanted to find a creative healing modality she could do for recuperation. She roped in Krista Suh, a screenwriter, to take a crochet class at the Little Knittery, a local yarn store near her home in Los Angeles. The two were hooked.

During many lengthy conversations in knitting circles, the two women found common ground in their passion for women’s rights and the inspiration they found in the pro-women’s rights language of the pending Women’s Marches.

Krista was planning to attend the Women’s March in Washington DC that January of 2017, and needed a cap to keep her head warm in the chill winter air. Jayna, due to her injury, would not be able to attend any of the marches, but wanted to find a way to have her voice heard in absentia and somehow physically “be” there. Together, a marcher and a non-marcher, they conceived the idea of creating a sea of pink hats at Women’s Marches everywhere that would make both a bold and powerful visual statement of solidarity, and also allow people who could not participate themselves – whether for medical, financial, or scheduling reasons — a visible way to demonstrate their support for women’s rights.

Little Knittery owner Kat Coyle designed a simple and brilliant pattern that would allow people of all knitting levels to be part of the project. The name Pussyhat™ was chosen in part as a protest against vulgar comments Donald Trump made about the freedom he felt to grab women’s genitals, to de-stigmatize the word “pussy” and transform it into one of empowerment, and to highlight the design of the hat’s ’pussycat ears’. Leveraging social media and the close-knit nature of the global knitting community, the word was spread and the fuse was lit.

A Pussyhat now resides in the Rapid Response collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, the permanent collection of Michigan State University’s museum, and other collections as an important piece of feminist history. What started as a simple means of protest, participation, and solidarity, has become an iconic global symbol of political activism.

* The Joker, who makes a grin on the face with a bright red face around his mouth, is at the center of the world demonstration, CNN reported on the 3rd (local time).

Reportedly, Lebanese and Iraqi artists have featured joker characters on demonstration posters or on social media.

In Santiago, Chile, someone sprayed a statue, "We are all clowns."

In Hong Kong, protesters even dressed up as jokers in the film as a sign of resistance to the government's ban on wearing masks.

The recently released Joker is a film about Batman's rival Joker as a convincing villain. Joker, who has been a hot topic with Joaquin Phoenix, won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice International Film Festival this year and has gained popularity worldwide.

In the film, there are scenes of young people who have exploded due to inequality and absurdity, pouring clown masks, pouring into the streets, causing riots, and aiming the muzzle toward the privileged class.

Indeed, protesters around the world have different goals and complaints, including austerity measures, threats to liberal democracy, and the growing gap between rich and poor.

CNN said, "Some of the protesters in Lebanon, Iraq, Chile, Bolivia, Hong Kong and Spain, however, are inspired by the psychological killer of the controversial film because they saw them in the joker." Told. Lebanese street artist Muhammad Cavani said, "The Joker is us," and "Beirut is the new Gotham City."

The movie 'Joker' is set in Gotham City, a dark city in the 1980s, divided into those with and without.

"In the film Joker," Cavani said, "the struggle between the rich elites and the ordinary people reverberated with Lebanese protesters." "Lebanese society is now full of the weak and the most frustrated, oppressed, I'm looking for a window of hope. "

When the protests broke out after the Lebanese government announced that it would charge 20 cents a day on smartphone messengers such as WhatsApp, Cavani, along with his twin brothers, took advantage of their representative calligraphy to help Joker The joker was expressed as a symbol of the protesters while holding it.

Psychologist Valentina Alvares told CNN that he would like to participate as much as possible in all protests in Chile.

Alvares photographed a fellow protester marching on March 24 with a sign asking for Haya of Chilean President Sebastian Figura.

"The joker is a misunderstood person. Weak and abandoned," he said. "The majority of Chileans who are not included in the privileged community feel the same feeling."

CNN commented, "The film" The Joker "provokes compassion for the protagonist, showing how the most vulnerable class of neglected society leads to terrible consequences."

"The jokers wearing or wearing the jokers are basically talking about Hong Kong or Lebanon's government. At the bottom, you have to be careful about what you're going to do. '

Beer also said that attracting the Joker was also effective in attracting protesters. Because of the worldwide hit of the film Joker, borrowing Joker's image helps attract attention and support worldwide.

It is noteworthy, however, that the interpretation of the Joker is open.

Lebanese and Chilean or other local demonstrators find themselves in the joker, but some anti-Brexitists in Britain may have opted for the Brexit British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. CNN pointed out.

In addition, violence and arson, destructiveness and looting are taking place in some areas of confusion, and some even point the arrows of blame to protesters who symbolize Joker.

Protesters such as Lebanon's Carnaby countered that they did not copy the Joker.

"I'm never going to be violent when I say I'll take the streets," Kanavi said. "In Lebanon, our resistance and protests are all about peace and harmony. Words are much stronger than guns."