Siwar Kraitem
/Visual Art I/
The work presented by Siwar Kraitem speaks to a testament of change through encounters with language, recording encounters and mementos as part of a reinterpreted calendar of documented time in the Netherlands.
A calendar.
A record of the quotidian.
A calendar of memory, alienation, belonging…
Encounters with a reality of resistance.
A testament of time passing and all that that means, accents shifting.
Notions gained, others lost.
A reimagined familiarity.
Siwar Kraitem is a multi-lingual artist, designer, and researcher based between Beirut and Amsterdam. She recently graduated from the temporary Disarming Design program at the Sandberg Instituut, which explored the emancipatory potential of art and design under oppressive systems. Her artistic practice centers on multilingualism and language during times of transformation, examining how society is constructed through language. In her works and research Krai(y)tem investigates the power dynamics embedded in language, semantics, translation, and everyday communication.