Boundless Mutual Connection Trough Art featuring: Candy Colors over Destruction (Homs)
Actually, every work of art is part of a larger image.
300 Unique abstract paintings expressing detail of ruins, each vibrating their own autonomic story.
Together they depict a totally destroyed city of Homs, serving as a foundation for a conceptual art project.
The artwork is titled ‘Candy Colors over Destruction’, a tribute to the many children that died and fled.
The 300 works are distributed by issuance at various places and times, as an artistic approach of the refugee path, which is determined by the capriciousness of fate.
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Does this lead to some sense of collectivity and joint responsibility, with its own dynamic?
Will this artwork ever be reunited?
Does this lead to some sense of collectivity and joint responsibility, with its own dynamic? Exchange of e-mail addresses is an essential part of this artistic experiment.
This website will function as a platform for mutual communication about the project.
Prof. Uğur Ümit Üngör
During the introduction of Boundless Mutual Connection Through Art on Mach 16, 2021, Uğur Ümit Üngör, a leading expert on Syria and professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, affiliated with the University of Amsterdam and the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, delivered a live-streamed lecture at SBK Galerie.
Participants
The participants of Boundless Mutual Connection Through Art carry the work far beyond the moment of its making. Candy Colors over Destruction, a tribute to the children of Homs, lives on through them fragmented into 300 pieces.