Imran Perretta’s transdisciplinary practice spans moving image, sound, composition, performance art, and poetry. His works examine questions around power, state surveillance, alterity, neo-coloniality, and the process of identity formation in young people of Muslim heritage in Western countries in the post-9/11 era. His approach to these concerns is informed by his own experience: as a British citizen with Muslim roots, he is familiar with the challenges his works grapple with.
At the Secession, Perretta presents his most recent sound and video installation, the destructors (2019), and a new sound piece that was made especially for this occasion. The exhibition’s title is borrowed from a 1636 poem by Andreas Gryphius that lament the horrors of the Thirty Years’ War. It’s the idea of the perpetual conflict it describes that Perretta recognizes in the politics of the War on Terror, the topic that is at the heart of his work.
Vereinigung bildender KünstlerInnen Wiener Secession
Im Sinne ihres Mottos „Der Zeit ihre Kunst. Der Kunst ihre Freiheit“ präsentiert die Secession in international ausgerichteten Einzel- und Themenausstellungen relevante künstlerische Ausdrucksformen der Gegenwart. Die Vereinigung bildender KünstlerInnen Wiener Secession ist das weltweit älteste unabhängige, der zeitgenössischen Kunst gewidmete Ausstellungshaus, das stets von Künstlerinnen und Künstlern geführt wurde.
Imran Perretta: tears of the fatherland
8 Mar 2024 - 2 Jun 2024
Secession, Friedrichstraße, Wien, Österreich
Imran Perretta, tears of the fatherland, installation view, Secession 2024, photo: Lisa Rastl