Video installation, 2019
Duration: 21 min
Anna Knappe & Amir Jan
Warland builds a fractured image of homeland through testimony, song, border spaces, and mediated views of Kabul. The work focuses on young Afghans for whom Afghanistan exists as an inherited place, a national narrative, and a possible destination of forced return.
The installation combines several registers of image and voice: accounts of deportation, a rewritten patriotic song, border landscapes, and images of Kabul shaped by distance and mediation. Together, these materials show how a place can become recognizable before it is known, and politically binding before it is experienced as home.
In Warland, homeland is produced through memory, media, law, and threat. The work examines how belonging can be imposed through the same systems that define who may stay, who must leave, and where a life is expected to continue.
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