The Floor is Yours

Sead Kazanxhiu weaves barbed wire to symbolically recreate a structure that also takes the form of a lectern, or podium. With a sharp irony, the work reflects on the destruction and erasure of borders, provoking a new understanding of our responsibility for territory and public speech. Kazanxhiu aims to present viewers with a means of resistance that does not have to involve the use of human resources in order to produce a counternarrative, but which instead uses art as a means to oppose oppressive systems of power, challenging the traditional perception of cultural

resistance.

 

Lectern

Materials: lectern composed of barbed wire, metal (iron)

Dimensions:115 x 70 x 50 cm

Weight: 52 kg

2016

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