Fassih Keiso's profile

The Life in the 21st Century, Photo Media installation

Produced between 2007-2008 in Melbourne/Australia
 
Exhibited:
2008    West Space, Melbourne http://westspace.org.au/event/generations/ & Sydney College for the             Arts gallery (SCA).
2009    Kunstverein Tiergaten - Gallery Nord, Berlin
2010    Centre for new art, Alhasskeh, North East Syria, Kozah At Gallery, Damascus
2011    Art Dubai, presented by Atassi gallery
 
"Kids Dream" work took part in the 2007 William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize in Melbourne & 2008 Darabin Art Show, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Australia
Kids Dream, from the series: Life in the 21st Century, C-type, analogue & digital photography, Chromira print on crystal archive paper, 127 x 188 cm
 
"Kids Dream" represents my view of the current Western politics, media and 
society on children, training boys for violence and war, and 
Sexualising girls at a much younger age.
iPod Nano, from the series: Life in the 21st Century, C-type, analogue & digital photography, 127 x 188 cm
 
 "iPod Nano" influenced by the obsession of a Lebanese wife, who is a filmmaker, in collecting empty jars and in making pickle and olive juxtaposed with elements from our contemporary culture.
Pet, from the series: Life in the 21st Century, C-type, analogue & digital photography, 127 x 188 cm
"The life in the 21st century" explores the impact of 21st century politics and 
culture on humanity and art production. Technically, the work explores the 
impact of digital tools on current art photography production, highlighting the 
transition that occurs in photography from analogue to digital by adopting and 
mixing the two techniques.
 
The life in 21st century presents a series of large digitally manipulated 
photographic prints comprise beautifully composed photographs, scanned, 
digitally treated and manipulated. At their heart, the images are classic 
portrait photography, but with a montage of extra objects in a surrealistic twist 
on the digital retouching techniques of modern marketing and advertising. 

 
Nord Gallery, Berlin 2009
The dirctor of Nord Gallery, Mona Hatoum & I
The Life in the 21st Century, Photo Media installation
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