Dear Helle - Solo exhibition at Immigrant Museum Denmark

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DEAR HELLE

‘Dear Helle’ is the title of Amir Zainorin’s solo exhibition at the Immigrant Museum in Farum, Denmark.

Helle or her full name,  Helle Thorning-Schmid is the Prime Minister of Denmark, a political leader for people of different background and cultures.

In this exhibition, Amir made an installation with two big portraits of Helle, one is a portrait of the Prime Minister by herself and the one is the famous ‘ selfie’ portrait of her together with American President Obama and the Prime Minister of UK, David Cameroun.  

This installation is made of only postcards and pins, which are installed straight to the museum wall.  Prior to the installation, Amir has been collecting postcards from the public with messages addressed to Helle. The people who took part were asked to write about anything that was on their mind. They came from different backgrounds such as the immigrants, asylum seekers and school children.

Amir has used over 2500 pins and about 2000 pieces of postcards for this installation. He said that he likes the fact that the work is there for only a period of time. It gives this notion of things being ‘temporary’, that everything in this world does not last forever, like a man, a building, an empire or like art itself. 

The exhibition can be viewed at the Immigrant Museum, Farum Denmark from May 15 – August 29 2014. 

During the course of the exhibition, the public is invited to write postcards to Helle and stick them to the museum wall. At the end of the exhibition period, Amir will personally delivered the written postcards to her.

 

Pak Sako

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHQWCpP_F-U&feature=c4-overview&list=UUpZNOMipw_sHmPoBOc4PX_w

the poet@pak samad

Malcolm X

mao, lenin and lincoln were in the same church in denmark.

postcards to abraham lincoln+from the postcard series.

kuasa, harapan dan tanah (power, hope and ground) national visual art gallery malaysia

 the stamp series

this one is titled TAR and hang right across a rauchenberg.

this hsow at the national visual art gallery malaysia will on until nov 2012

all my work shown ar collection of the gallery accept for the video.

http://24projektet.dk/24-minutes-to-wonder/

a collaborative project with camilla blackman. the exhibition will be on the 4th oct at galleri øxholm, cph. check this blog. ( oic from our first exchange of artwork - to be further work on )

mnkk residency rebild denmark 2012

work produced from the residency in rebild.

the exhibition took place in church in rebild.

'no' performance art by amir zainorin
Saturday 27th may 2012
the performance started from 10 am to 5 pm in different locations in copenhagen.



text from the invitation

no connection, no ego, no credit, no crap, no war, no brutality, no hypocrisy,  no unnecessary death, no brownies, no satisfaction, no admission, no choice, no foreigner, no prejudice, no deal, no shopping, no debt, no hope, no problem, no holiday, no junk food, no shitty drugs, no shit, no education, no mercy, no ****, no voice, no comment, no dickheads, no kidding, no end.....

this will be among the themes for my unorganized, unplanned ( ok maybe a little bit), uninstitutionalized, highly....whats the word...ambition - haha.., self proclaim professionalism, low budget self organized event. all for the love of arts and humanity.

i have been asked this question before, what do you expect from doing this and what do you want to achieve........to be famous and makes lots of money!!
to be honest i dont really know how to answer this.....and actually i dont give a bloody ****....the time is short...who knows what will happen tomorrow....like the wise young man Lukas Graham said....just enjoy the journey.



the whore and dildo house istedgade, the immigration office copenhagen, the graveyard roskildevej, Folketinget @the parliment copenhagen, the police headquarters cph, the royal academy cph, statens museum cph, one of the banks in cph, kastrup airport, mc donalds...among some of the places.



photos by Maher Khatib

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

pins and postcards

in between mao and george

post card to george

 

The work 'Postcard to George' is part of the post card series i made. It deals with the space in which we communicate and the global economic crisis we are experiencing. The image George Washington was copied from the USD paper currency. The work is done with postcards collected from different places such as restaurants and culture houses in Denmark, given for free. Not so long ago we had to pay money for these postcards, but due to a faster and more reliable system of communicating such as e-card, these postcards seems to be a 'thing of the past' and now used as a form of advertisement or propaganda.

The postcards are pinned straight onto the wall and the rest of the postcards is left lying on the floor. This gives the work a mortality or temporary status in which it occupies the space for only a period of time, just like a system, an empire or a person, George . After some time they are remembered in history books, on paper currencies, posters, stamps or on a postcard.