Interview with Walid Siti – Padiglione Iraq – 54th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia
The examination of how the inanimate survive, and its shifting place and engagement with the local imagination is the ongoing subject of Walid Siti’s current installation work. Siti, who has long identified and used the mountain (as a central point of Kurdish identity) to derive his painted mediations on the intersections and formations of collective history and personal experience, here takes a tactile approach to water.