Pipes

documenta 2017: Hiwa K. ( Kurdistan ): When We Were Exhaling Images ( Als wir Bilder ausgeatmet haben ). An Installation of 20 stacked sewer pipes. The artist got his inspiration for this project at the port of Patras ( Greece ). Refugees are dwelling in such pipes for weeks in hope to get with them on a boat to Italy. Without furniture, of course. Students of Kassel Art Academy equipped the pipes with individual furniture for themexhibition.
The other aspect of his work is a critic on skyrocket buildings in modern architecture. In urban planning a lot of social architecture is destroyed, in favor of a elite, that is striving for high. The project is meant to remind of something like 'horizontal approach'. The question is: what is high and what's on the bottom and that's a question of might, money and social classes.