In their two-channel video installation Winzipped senses, artists Vanja Sandell Billström and Reza Hazare put themselves in front of the camera to talk about experiences of being under pressure, questions about migration, privileges and responsibilities. Their artistic process has been one of a shifting call and response, with methods including deforming parts of their memories, experiences and encounters and making artworks that take turns in who’s listening and who’s talking, as a means of exploring different understangings of ”shared history”.
Vanja Sandell Billström
(born 1983 in Stockholm, where she lives and works) received her artistic training at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm and works as an artist and filmmaker. In her latest work, Sandell Billström mainly explores issues concerning community and seclusion.
Reza Hazare
(born 1987 in Zahedan, Iran, a citizen of Afghanistan, lives and works in Stockholm) is educated at the Visual Arts School of Tehran and the Azerbaijan State Academy of Arts. Hazare works mainly with drawing, painting and sculpture, and in his art explores among other things, the human psyche, history and visual traditions.