KAPR
Workshop and installation: wood ( Angelim vermelho ), metal, PVC 400g/m²
250x250x200cm each
2024- work in progress
A realisation in collaboration with Astera Mortezai.
Kapr Project proposes a temporary structure that can be both seen as an artwork by itself and a platform for a series of
workshops and happenings. It has been submitted to the city of Gouda.
The structure of the project takes the form of shelters made of wood typical of nomadic habitat in some places in Iran. The name
Kapr is a Kurdish term that is given to shelters designed to invite passengers to share tea and fruits during the summer. They have a seasonal rhythm, organized by the cyclic succession of stays on different sites. Each year, a settlement is left until the next reinstallment on the following year.
Kapr reenacts it by conceiving a sculptural installation made of wood: inspired by the state of the settlement before the return of the nomads, it is like a bare skeleton waiting for its cover.
Model for Kapr, 2021
Wood, PVC Frontlift 500g/sqm
100x70x50cm
The first part of the project is a poetic workshop inviting the public to assemble a covering made of different pieces of fabric, each carrying a word in different languages, cut from various sources, selected by the artists as corresponding to the concept of "bullshit" coined by Harry Frankfurt: fallacious concepts and reasonings, marketing jargon, scams, horoscopes and esoteric babblings, and a sample of essentialist statements taken from conservative parties.
These words are left to be reused by each participant in order to create their own, personal statements, poetry, haïkus, aphorisms or jokes.
All of these sentences are assembled into a giant patchwork, to cover the wooden structure: with this symbolic reappropriation of language, we create a common good in the form of a ceiling of literature. The shelters are then ready to host various events: It is a multifunctional space that can host other events: performances, lectures, or music.
The patchwork is extended at each new workshop, on different locations, as a work in progress.
Study for Kapr #1, 2021
PVC Frontlift 500g/sqm on canvas
60x40cm