Ahmed Ramadan
Zwei Seelen
2019
steel, stainless steel, human hair ropes approx. 120 x 130 x 320 cm
"Two Souls" deals with the topic of identity and what it means to live in a foreign country. The effort required to adapt to a new environment, the conflict between old and new self and between preserving memory and finding oneself anew.
I myself have always experienced these two worlds as two personalities. And it is precisely this experience that I put into practice in this work. The properties of the materials have emotional meanings here, the rusty, the mass, the cube-shaped, but also cultural meanings, such as the fact that the hair used comes from people from different cultures.
The arrangement, which is variable in this work, develops its own grammar.
More information about the artist can be found at: www.ahmed-ramadan.de