Welcome to a conversation with Sudanese political cartoonist Khalid Albaih and Ukrainian filmmaker Tetiana Khodakivska in Dag Erik Elgin’s exhibition BOMBA at the Skylight Halls of Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo on Thursday, December 12, 2024, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM.
Khalid Albaih and Tetiana Khodakivska
How can art be a witness to war? How can traumatic testimonies be drawn up? Is seeing images from afar also a form of witnessing?
These questions will be reflected through the work of Sudanese political cartoonist Khalid Albaih and the Ukrainian filmmaker Tetiana Khodakivska.
Khalid Albaih recently completed the installation Shahid, Arabic for witness, which addresses how social media and live streaming of the atrocities in Gaza have turned viewers into witnesses. Tetiana Khodakivska‘s mixed-media documentary The Blue Sweater with a Yellow Hole uses hand-drawn animations as testimony of Ukrainian children’s time in the Russian “re-education camps”.
The conversation will take place in the room where Pablo Picasso’s Guernica was shown in 1938, which is the focus of Dag Erik Elgin’s current exhibition BOMBA. Although Picasso painted the work in exile in France, Guernica depicts scenes of the devastating bombing by Nazi planes of the Basque town of the same name just weeks before.
Photo: Jan Khür/Abrakadabra
The event is part of a program that is organized in partnership with Fritt Ord and Kunstnernes Hus. Kunstnernes Hus create the framework for current conversations about the intersections of art, society and freedom.
