• Yassine Khaled: ForHidden
  • Yassine Khaled: ForHidden
  • Yassine Khaled: ForHidden
  • Yassine Khaled: ForHidden
  • Yassine Khaled: ForHidden
  • Yassine Khaled: ForHidden
  • Yassine Khaled: Love Me, 2017. Installation and sculpture of mixed techniques, 11 m x 1,2 m.
  • Yassine Khaled: Love Me, 2017. Installation and sculpture of mixed techniques, 11 m x 1,2 m.
  • Yassine Khaled: Love Me, 2017. Installation and sculpture of mixed techniques, 11 m x 1,2 m.
  • Yassine Khaled: Love Me, 2017. Installation and sculpture of mixed techniques, 11 m x 1,2 m.
  • Yassine Khaled: Love Me, 2017. Installation and sculpture of mixed techniques, 11 m x 1,2 m.

Yassine Khaled

ForHidden

Jätkä 2 28.10.-12.11.2017

Yassine Khaled
ForHidden
Galleria Huuto Jätkäsaari, Jätkä 2
28.10.-12.11.2017

Open as usual on All Saints Day 4.11.2017 at 12-5 pm.

ForHidden explores the concept of unseen and banality through a series of works including installations, drawings and paintings. ForHidden seeks multilayered connections between our times and Classical art. It also completes Yassine Khaled’s long-term project: A Territory Under MaMa (2017).

The main work of the exhibition, Love Me, is a 11-meter-long installation that a viewer can enter, and find him/herself disconnected from the surrounding exhibition space. In the end of the installation’s ”tunnel”, made of curtains, is a reproduction of the Statue of Eirene, the “Goddess of Peace”, carrying a child in her left arm – Plutus, the god of wealth from the ancient Greek religion. The original statue of Cephisodotus the Elder is an allegory for Plutus prospering under the protection of Peace; it once constituted a public appeal to good sense. The combination of the sculpture and the installation creates a surrealistic vision that opens up several multifaceted questions, specially when ”Eirene” of the installation is wearing a facial veil.

Yassine Khaled works interdisciplinary with making sculptures, installations, performances, paintings and videos. His work is mostly focused on the disparity between the power and wealth of some, and the powerlessness and poverty of others in our globalized world. Khaled aims to visualize power relations between individuals caused by, for instance, ever-increasing gaps in wealth, socio-cultural differences, labor conditions and educational opportunities — the conditions that determine one’s level of comfort and stability in society. Khaled was born and raised in Morocco. Currently he lives and works in Helsinki; this geographic and cultural shift has had an evident impact on his work.

The exhibition has been supported by Arts Promotion Centre Finland, as a support for the gallery rent.

Contact information:

Yassine Khaled
tel. 044 910 7659
yassinekhaled9(at)gmail.com
https://yassinekhaled9.wixsite.com/yassine