Iman Tajik
The Dreamers
The Dreamers
The Dreamers series is part of this wider exploration. It shows the artist in a Highland landscape, engaged in a performance around the notion of borders and national symbolism. For Tajik, who produced these photographic works during a residency at Deveron Arts in Huntly, the length of cloth represents the abstract notion of ‘the border’ (for him, a very real line of separation) and the emergency blanket, hoisted on its flagpole, stands in for the idea of nationhood and the imagined community (of which the artist finds himself both inside of and out). By situating himself alongside both, and adopting a range of postures in relation to these two objects, Tajik draws our attention to the social and political power contained within these symbols and ideas, but also to their flexibility as concepts. For the artist, the photographs are as much a biographical record of his own migratory journey across borders and into new jurisdictions as they are a political gesture about identity in a globalised yet divided world.
These photographs have been exhibited at Stills Gallery in Edinburgh and The Hunterian Art Gallery in Glasgow. They are also part of various public and private collections.
The Dreamers (2020) ©️Iman Tajik, supported by Deveron Projects, Glasgow International, Creative Scotland
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