TiàWùK (Kuwait at reverse)

Kuwait is one of the smallest and richest country in the world and maybe the less present in the narration of the Gulf area, despite 30 years ago has gone through the first television war in the history, the Gulf War. This small country is inhabited by 4 million people and only 2% of the land is cultivable. The real citizen are just about more 1 million and the other inhabitants are expats who are working there especially from Asia. Kuwait has discovered the oil wells in 1934 and after the second world war quickly has became one the biggest exporters in the
Gulf Area. Kuwait has an harsh environment and suffers extreme environmental conditions. The quality of the air is one of the worst in the world due to the presence of refineries with a really high rate of cancer among the population. Some part of the population, which only recently has experienced the economical wealth, is suffering a psychological clash where the symptoms can be find in a materialist and dystopian vision of the surrounding world . This work is a visual research about the relation between psyche and environment and the link between inner and exterior world. According to Gestalt’s psychological theories and other esoteric traditions, we know as the exterior world we create and live is a reflection of our inner world, and how lack of inner awareness and the attachment are the sources of the suffering that project human mind in the material world. On Tiàwùk indeed, inner discomfort exacerbated by a wrong reception of the capitalist model matches economical wealth giving shape to the concept of “economical fantasy”, which disclose the construction of a distorted vision of life and surrounding reality dealing with the strong islamic tradition. The work runs along the subtle border between reality and fiction and wants to show these conditionings.

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