Opening on the 27th February, Edmund Clark will be exhibiting The Mountains of Majeed in an installation incorporating photography, sculpture and Taliban poetry to explore the legacy of Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan.
Private View: Thursday 26th February, Flowers Gallery, Kingsland Road, London.
The 40,000 People on Bagram Air Base Haven’t Actually Seen Afghanistan, by Pete Brook. The full article can be viewed here.
“Last month, Nato launched its new mission in Afghanistan, sending 12,000 troops to assist national security forces. Their main hub will be Bagram, once the largest US base in the country. In an extract from his new book, photographer Edmund Clark describes his last visit as Operation Enduring Freedom wound down.”
Edmund will discuss his work in conversation with photographer Paul Lowe at the London College of Communication.
The Mountains of Majeed will be available for purchase, more information to come.
“We don’t see the war from the other side,” says Clark. “The Mountains of Majeed focuses on two sets of mountains – those captured by myself using a high-tech camera and the low-tech paintings of Majeed, which were exhibited around the base.”
The article can be viewed online.
“The paintings seem to be some kind of reminder of that way of life and its power to endure. But it is the mountains themselves that symbolise it more than anything else.” After all, as Clark says in his conclusion to the book, the mountains, both real and imagined, “belong to Majeed”.”
The article can be viewed online.