Omar Imam

Conceptual Photographer
    
Space Refugee
Location: Amsterdam
Nationality: Dutch
Biography: Omar Imam (Damascus, 1979) is an Amsterdam-based, visual artist, and Rijksakademie alumni. In his dreamlike photographic works, and sculptures. Imam uses irony and a conceptual approach to provoke positive impact, and contribute to society... MORE
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Space Refugee
Copyright Omar Imam 2024
Updated Aug 2021
Topics Featured Film, Fine Art, Videos
'Space Refugee' is a 400 kg sculpture (340 x 210 x 210cm)
Artwork collected by FENIX Museum.

 Recipe:
- 1 Bianca
- 1 Omar
- 1 skippyball  
- 5400 handmade soldiers.

It’s a story of a father and daughter who can travel in time and space via a huge magic lollipop, while riding on an enormous skippyball.
An adventure of a war and torture survivor who managed to turn trauma into superpower with the essential help from his daughter.
I came up with the idea of recycling soldiers, because humans are producing a lot of fighters, and like any plastic trash we don't know how to get rid of them.

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