Iranian artists Icy and Sot (Saman Oskouei, born in 1985 and Sasan
Oskouei born in 1991) recently took off on another self-initiated
mission, inspired by climate activist Greta Thunberg’s work and the
worldwide environmental movement she has started. Using the vast
Californian desert landscape as a dramatic backdrop for their work and
activist’s impactful speech as an alarming wake-up call, Saman and
Sasan Oskouei created a riveting video titled “Our House is on
Fire” that opens their new exhibition in DANYSZ PARIS. The
exhibition includes a set of video with an installation, as well as
their more recent works ranging from sculpture to paintings all
centered around the artists’ engagement for a more conscious world.
As writer Sasha Bogojev puts it, “In some way turning Greta’s
inspiring words into poetic reality, Icy and Sot built a frame of an
archetypal home and set it on fire. Allowing for the untouched
surrounding nature to be seen between the blazing framework of the
house, the artists suggest looking at the wider picture in which the
Earth is our only home. The video shows the reversed footage of their
installation being swallowed by flames and crumbling to the ground,
creating an illusion of burning pieces of wood rising up and forming
the familiar structure. With Greta’s voice in the background calling
upon civil disobedience and rebellion, the video has a compelling
incentive undertone reminding us that the change is possible if we put
pressure on those in power”.
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