03/28/2016
Unemployment: a visual protest
RK Editions is thrilled to announce the publication of a special edition by Iranian artist Mazdak Shadkam. The photograph 'Ill at Ease' is from the series 'Unemployment: a visual protest,' an ongoing project that directly references the artist’s daily life while unemployed. Shadkam not only explores unemployment as a daily living condition, but investigates the underlying dynamics of that space as well as the emotional state of living in the company of unemployment. Shadkam is known for images where physical places carry connotations of larger concepts, such as home and nostalgia, and where objects are emotionally charged. In Unemployment he takes this exploration of identity rooted in time and space one step further.
Ill at Ease, 2016 C-print 12.5" x 16" Edition of 25