Pixels of Memories
Raisan Hameed
2024 — Irak
About this series
Pixels of Memories بكسلات الذاكرة combines conceptual reflections on memory, destruction and the invisibility of history. This work takes up this visual language and creates a fragment of memories, image errors and gaps. It becomes a space of testimony and reflection in which viewers must decipher the layers of images and their meaning. Hameed has scoured the entire map of Iraq on Google Maps and compiled an archive of hundreds of screen shots. In Iraq, the 360-degree views are not uploaded to the platform by the company itself, but by private individuals. Hameed is particularly interested in the errors and gaps he comes across during his research. (Hanar Hupka)
Photographer: Raisan Hameed
Nationality: Iraki / German
Based in: Leipzig, Germany
Website: raisanhameed.com
Instagram: @raisan_hameed
Raisan Hameed (*1991 in Mosul-Iraq) is an Iraqi German multimedia artist based in Leipzig, Germany, whose work often reflects on personal and collective memory in the context of war and displacement. Currently a Meisterschüler at the Hoch- schule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, Raisan explores the interplay of truth and representation in his art. He is often the subject of his images himself and processes personal experien- ces metaphorically by acting and experimenting with different media.
Prize
2024 finalists PREMIO LIBRO D‘ARTISTA BOOK AWARD 2023 selected for Carte Blanche / Paris Photo Prize.
2023 selected for FUTURES PHOTOGRAPHY by Der Greif. 2022 finalists Lenscratch Student Prize in L.A.
2021 selected for Fresh Eyes Photo 2021 in NL.
2021 winner Altered Narratives Photography Prize, ETH-Zürich, Max Planck Gesellschaft and Picter in Zürich.
Solo exhibitions
16.09-08.10.2023 Solo exhibition Broken Paths Die Putte – Neu Ulm