The Passports of the States Don’t Exist Anymore (The Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, German Democratic Republic, Tibet)
Bead knitting, 2012–2015
Working in the Public Space (Lungotevere dei Tebaldi, Rome, The Patarei Prison, Tallinn, The Square of the Three Cultures, Mexico City)
Documentation of performances, 2012–2015
Dzamil Kamanger’s works combine traditional Central Asian craft skills with modern themes. He presents four beadworks made using a traditional Kurdish technique. The work consists of four pieces: a Soviet Union, a Yugoslavian, a GBR and a Tibetan passport. As an Iranian Kurd, Kamanger is interested in countries that don’t exist, because the Kurds don’t have their own country.
Kalle Hamm’s and Dzamil Kamanger’s photographs are documentations of Kamanger’s interventions in public space he started to make in 2009. They comment on the immigrants’ working conditions and refer to various problems linked to a specific site, the city and the state.
Artists' Bios:
Kalle Hamm was born in 1969 in Rauma, Finland. He graduated in Lahti Fine Art Institute 1994 and made his MA in the University of the Art and Industrial Design in Helsinki 2002. His artworks examine cultural encounters and their impacts both in historical and contemporary contexts.
Dzamil Kamanger was born in 1948 in Mariwan, Iran. He is an Iranian Kurd and set in Helsinki since 1994. He studied ceramic in the Kermanshah University and made his MA in 1973. He is concerning in his art his own experiences as a refugee by using traditional Iranian handicraft techniques. He has collaborated with Kalle Hamm since the year 1999.