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Elias Al-Ameri

Elias Al-Ameri

Vanishing Point

Name(s)

Elias Al-Ameri

Website(s)

alamerielias.com

Instagram

@alamerielias

Employment

100% Independent, Winterthur

Education

F+F Schule für Kunst und Design, Photography, Zurich, 2022

Title

Vanishing Point

Year of creation

2021–2022

Place of creation

Lesbos (EL)/Zurich

Context of creation

Diploma, F+F Schule für Kunst und Design, Photography, Zurich, 2022

Collaborators

Naïma Naas, Mushreq Jabbar

Item(s) shown

Textile sculpture, multimedia installation

Dimensions

Various

Formats/Duration
Material(s)

Mixed media

Material supplier(s)

Headscarves, life jackets and a parachute:
The fabrics that the cool wind scattered over the rocky shores of Lesbos tell a story, the story of the flight to Europe. There is a feeling made up of equal parts fear, hope and hopelessness. The designer sensed it in Zurich, in conversations with refugees who had already left their journey behind. This feeling then followed him all the way to Greece, where it overtook him during the nights when he was lying on a mattress on the floor of a packed refugee apartment, trying to find sleep. He processed this feeling back in Zurich, when he recombined the fabrics from Greece into a completely new design, interwoven with the emotions of displacement.

The resulting textile sculpture has become the foundation of Vanishing Point a multimedia installation that includes analogue images from Greece and digital fashion images from shoots in Switzerland, creating a gateway into the parallel reality of forced migration that is once again on the rise globally.

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