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Hussein Shikha’s practice moves through design, art, and research engages with complex symbologies that reflect his heritage and family history through equally complex pixel drawings. His practice functions as a manipulated Beautiful recollection rooted in his PlayStation Memory Card and personal lived experiences, operating as a digital iteration of an emotional atemporality. His work entails experimental film, animation, textile and interactive installations. Hussein takes the manipulation and transformation of the southern Iraqi carpet (with all its philosophies) as a starting point to understand visual arts from Eastern and non-Eastern perspectives, employing mnemonic associations, refrential to spiritual signifiers reaffirming his own inherited ways of knowing and doing. Using pixellation as a tool to present a fragmented reality that needs to be experienced in its fragmentation, through repetition, variation, and interconnected forms. Rather than following a linear narrative, it…
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Hussein Shikha’s practice moves through design, art, and research engages with complex symbologies that reflect his heritage and family history through equally complex pixel drawings. His practice functions as a manipulated Beautiful recollection rooted in his PlayStation Memory Card and personal lived experiences, operating as a digital iteration of an emotional atemporality. His work entails experimental film, animation, textile and interactive installations. Hussein takes the manipulation and transformation of the southern Iraqi carpet (with all its philosophies) as a starting point to understand visual arts from Eastern and non-Eastern perspectives, employing mnemonic associations, refrential to spiritual signifiers reaffirming his own inherited ways of knowing and doing. Using pixellation as a tool to present a fragmented reality that needs to be experienced in its fragmentation, through repetition, variation, and interconnected forms. Rather than following a linear narrative, it…
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