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Shadi Habib Allah

M1

Sylvia Kouvali, London | Piraeus

Artist
Shadi Habib Allah
Title
M1
Year
2022
Duration
15 min
Format & Technical

Single channel video, 4 channel audio

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Unlike the mythical Geri and Freki, tales often relate to the damage the wolf inflicted on towns and villages, uniting the community to fend off these horrors and drive the beast away.

While people are divided today over those in favor of culling and others who advocate for the preservation of wilderness, the current Canis Lupis in Norway and Sweden questions the very meaning of naturalness and wildness.

Regulated and moderated through technologies of government, the current wolf of the wildlife is a technical animal tipping across zones between preservation and eradication.

For Per Segerbäck, an engineer who’s allergic to electromagnetic frequencies, life is only possible outside the city, closer to that wilderness. The wolf might be felt as an exacerbation for his ailment, as they both share a space at the edge of extinction.

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