Innovative Curatorial Projects – Paris / SingaporeAdel Abidin
*1973 Iraq. Lives and works in Helsinki, Finland.
Adel Abidin is a video, installation and photography artist. His multi-media practice explores the complex relationships between culture, politics, and identity. Using a sharp palette of irony and humor, Abidin gravitates towards social situations dealing with elusive experiences and cultural alienation.
Crazy days / Iraq–Finland / 2005 / 11’52 / 4:3
[Available on DVD: Human Frames - Madness]
An immigrant living in Finland is constantly being approached as an outsider by the Finns, thus reinforcing his own “other” identity. Crazy days is a collection of impressions this man has gathered during his time in Finland and a visual documentation of his associations.