PERSPECTIVES (Iraq, 2007-2008)
When Benjamin Lowy received a telephone call from his mother in 2005, asking him if he had had a chance to go out shopping with Iraqis, he had to explain to her that something like that was impossible, because it was too dangerous. PERSPECTIVES was Lowy’s attempt to visualise the perspective from which he had to experience Iraq – namely through the widow of an armoured vehicle. These images not only make the danger of everyday Iraq palpable; Lowy’s windows are also a metaphor for the barriers that stand in the way of real dialogue.
