1 Feb. 2021Tempel Knuller Social ClubCairo, EgyptUGLYLAMBBy Victor BoulletCurated by Texas KnullerBo
1 Feb. 2021Tempel Knuller Social ClubCairo, EgyptUGLYLAMBBy Victor BoulletCurated by Texas KnullerBorn, then they gave me the name Victor Andreas Uglum Boullet. My mother insisted on me having these Norwegian family names stuck in between my fathers French / Scottish names. Their disputes must have started early. These two Norwegian names annoyed me as a child. I never used either of them. When my teacher shouted out my full name in the classroom, I remember blaming my mum each and every time for those ridiculous names. Andreas Uglum is my great-grandfather. He came the west coast of Norway. Sogn to be precise. I know nothing about this man except that he was a tailor and had an alcohol problem.My Father is named Victor Boullet, his father was also Victor Boullet, all bakers. So, I also worked as a baker. In the late 80’s I worked at my father’s bakery and there worked a Pakistani man, Kushdilh Kahn. According to him he was Pakistani No. 33 arriving into Norway. Kushdilh Kahn saw my payslip at the bakery and he looked at me and uttered“Your name is Uglylamb?” “Victor Uglylamb?”“Uglylamb?”In 2019 curator Elise By Olsen invited me to take part in the Norwegian west coast exhibition (Vestlands utstillingen) I suggested using my name Uglum and how I became Uglylamb as possible content for my project and paintings. Even though I had been curated into the show all of a sudden the jury rejected me, apparently I was not enough of a “West coast Norwegian”. Despite the cancelation and humiliation I continued the project.When Kushdilh Kahn came to Norway in 1970 after a difficult trip via Kabul, Tehran, Istanbul, Munich, Hamburg, Copenhagen, Kiel to finally arrive in Oslo he was then a very popular man in the capital city of Norway, but since those days he has tasted the change of society.I am born, raised and educated in Norway, but with a name like Victor Boullet I have been excluded many times. I remember in the 90’s I was told that I could not be included into a show due to my name, it was not sufficiently Norwegian, she told me. In today’s Norwegian society, this form of discrimination is still ongoing and a daily problem for some.These paintings are dedicated to Kushdilh Kahn. Victor Andreas Uglum BoulletLiverpool 2020 -- source link
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