BlackFlash Magazine is thrilled to announce the Issue 35.2 artist in our 35th anniversary subscription program, Jayce Salloum. Subscribe to BlackFlash Editions and receive a limited-edition archival-quality print in conjunction with each 2018 issue. Jayce Salloum’s shrouded…early spring morning from the hotel, Buddha monastery cave site, Bamiyan, Hazarajat, Afghanistan from April 17, 2008 has been paired with our Spring issue.
In April 2008, Vancouver-based artist Jayce Salloum travelled with Afghan- Hazara artist Khadim Ali from Karachi, Pakistan to Kabul, Afghanistan and then overland into the Bamiyan Valley in Central Afghanistan. Of specific interest to the artists were the ruined cave sites of the c. 5th century Buddhas, destroyed by the Taliban in March 2001. The ruins of the Bamiyan Buddhas provided a site from which to examine the situation of the Hazara people, a persecuted Shi’a Muslim minority, who believe themselves to be descended from the sculptors who produced the colossal figures of the Buddha.
The image shrouded…early spring morning from the hotel, Buddha monastery cave site, Bamiyan, Hazarajat, Afghanistan from April 17, 2008 is a part of دلِ که سوز ندارد, دلِ نیست (the heart that has no love/pain/generosity is not a heart), a multi-media installation that records the destitution of current conditions in Bamiyan while reflecting on the tensions shaping an incipient modernity in Afghanistan. The installation engages a sense of the complexity of the current situation in Afghanistan, taking up themes of the possibility of resistance, hope and beauty in the context of ongoing conflict.
Jayce Salloum has worked in installation, photography, drawing, performance, text and video since 1976, as well as curating exhibitions, conducting workshops, and coordinating a vast array of cultural projects. His practice exists within and between the personal, local, and the transnational. Currently residing in Vancouver, Canada, Salloum recently held a solo show at Artspace in Sydney. He has exhibited widely, from the smallest unnamed storefronts to institutions such as the Musée du Louvre, Paris; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Canada; Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; Centre Pompidou, Paris; CaixaForum, Barcelona.
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