Exile is a hard job: walls

The publication focuses on Nil Yalter's eponymous work "Exile is a Hard Job:Walls"; a public space intervention concerning immigration. The publication will bring together a comprehensive archive on this guerilla postering project which spread to 19 cities over 12 years by forging the...

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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Köln Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König [2024]
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Zusammenfassung:The publication focuses on Nil Yalter's eponymous work "Exile is a Hard Job:Walls"; a public space intervention concerning immigration. The publication will bring together a comprehensive archive on this guerilla postering project which spread to 19 cities over 12 years by forging the collaboration of art institutions around the world. Yalter first realized "Exile is a Hard Job: Walls" in Spain. She recreated as large-scale posters, the black and white photographs and drawings of a blue-colour worker family that she met in 1976 while creating the series "Immigrants". A comprehensive archive on Nil Yalter's eponymous guerilla project which the artist has realised in 19 cities around the world to date. The publication focuses on Nil Yalter's eponymous work "Exile is a Hard Job: Walls," bringing together a comprehensive archive on this guerilla postering project which was first realized in Spain: Yalter recreated as largescale posters the black and white photographs and drawings of a blue-collar workers' family, put them up on the walls of Valencia and added with red paint in Spanish, "Exile is A Hard Job", the last lines from Naz?m Hikmet's poem "from Sofia" (1957). This guerrilla gesture takes Yalter's artistic practice out of the bounds of art institutions and gives visibility to the daily struggles of immigrants. The project has by now been implemented on the walls of 19 cities, each time in the native language of the city as well as the predominantly spoken languages of the immigrants
Beschreibung:94 Seiten, 96 ungezählte Seiten 27.5 cm x 21 cm
ISBN:9783753306193
3753306193