THE PAST OF THE FUTURE
by Raed Motar
Soundinstallation
Unique artwork, 2015
THE PAST OF THE FUTURE is a sound installation in
the form of a black box creating awareness of
the power of time and forgiveness. The audience
listens to an cockpit recording that takes place
50 years into the future, when a catastrophe in
the “Western” world occurs and Iraq becomes a
safe place...
Raed Motar (b. Baghdad, 1987) graduated from the
College of Fine Arts in 2011. Raed Motar’s work
ranges from hyper -realistic oil paintings to eccentric photoshopped photographs of friends and
family with rough captions violently scribbled
all over them in cryptic script. He experiments
with performance and theatre in an unconventional manner, often re-transforming these events
into new works and paintings after they have been
staged. Raed Motar is a member of Sada, the Association for Contemporary Iraqi Arts, and has featured in Ashkal Alwan’s Home Workspace program
in Beirut, Lebanon.
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