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Bells to cannons! Hiwa K reverses the known mechanism: Cannons to Bells! But his project The Bell is also a narrative about the violent transformations of the Middle East in the recent past.

Often, in times of war, whatever metal could be found was melted down to be cast into implements of war. Also bells, whose high-quality bronze gave some artillery its tools for the attack. Hiwa K observed a reverse melting process and then took it to a symbolic extreme himself.
Nazhad, a Kurdish entrepreneur from a settlement south of Sulaimany in Kurdish Iraq - his story captured on film by Hiwa K - …