07.11.2025 – 20.11.2025
In his artistic approach, Jaballah often deals with what he calls ‘outsiders, subcultures and contradictions’. He explores perceptions, encounters, feelings and relationships with a polarising, charged subject: his works confront us with skinheads, their self-image and how they are perceived by others. He creates his images from research into history, context and empiricism. The first skinheads were a youth movement protesting against bourgeois society. They were music enthusiasts, multicultural, saw themselves as honest, hard workers and distanced themselves from snobs and hippies. It was only years later, accompanied by economic crises, that racist and right-wing extremist skinhead groups began to rise. Some groups remained largely apolitical. Others saw themselves as apolitical or left-wing and inclusive forces, such as the group ‘Sharp’ – Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice.
Arbi Jaballah – Bite your skin
07.11.2025 – 20.11.2025
AG18 Gallery
Annagasse 18, 1010 Vienna
https://ag18gallery.com
