Dreams on Wheels

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Jeanno Gaussi’s talk shed light on folkloric and decorative traditions as viable strategies for making contemporary art, and the modes of production and collaboration in such processes. She introduced her recent works: Family Stories (2011-2012), a collaborative work exhibited at dOCUMENTA 13, that commented on memory and historical and personal trauma. Dreams on Wheels (2014) involved traditional Truck Painters (now a dying craft in Afghanistan) to paint skateboards for teenagers in Berlin. Her War Rug Project, (2013) a series of digital drawings and sculptures subtract geometric forms from motifs of coveted Afghani War-Rugs in Kabul’s markets