Amanullah Mojadidi

Posters by artists have always been one of the strong points of steirischer herbst’s festival program. In the 1970s, some of them even made headlines and created a local scandal. Without necessarily aiming at one but carrying on the tradition strongly connected to Graz and its people, the festival this year wants to disrupt the public space, nowadays saturated with glossy images of all kinds, with new artist’s works, sometimes enigmatic but always memorable. Artists were asked to react to the slogan The Way Out, but not necessarily to illustrate or refer to it directly. What we see are not always posters in the strict sense, but fragments of the artists’ rich imagination, fluctuating freely between scenes of pure fantasy, split-second life impressions, and direct political statements.


Bio
Amanullah Mojadidi (1971, Jacksonville, USA) is a visual artist of Afghan descent known for his public art projects exploring Afghan politics and cross-cultural identity. In recent years he has been active in Kabul’s art scene and has been credited for playing a crucial role in its resurgence. Until the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban, Mojadidi lived in Kabul.

9.9.–10.10.

City of Graz and Visitor and Press Center

The posters are also available for sale in the Visitor and Press Center, individually and as silkscreens in numbered editions. They can also be ordered online.

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