PreImage Blind as the Mother Tongue

To remember sometimes you need other archaeological tools says the voice over in Hiwa Ks PreImage Blind as the Mother Tongue The video depicts the artist walking across fields wastelands estates going from Turkey to Athens and then to Rome a path that mirrors his own journey as a child when he fled Iraqi Kurdistan and reached Europe by foot His Preimages are fragments of a path whose final destination is uncertain Commissioned by Documenta 14