Dante Buu: oh Honey, you are not a Terrorist (924 hours)
“It is an unbearably hot summer night in Berlin. Jonas sat down on the burnt grass, his heart beating and pumping insanely as he puts on a blindfold. A blindfold, so that he could meet a man he had never met before. People are passing by, people are laughing and talking, Jonas is trembling, every inch of him... suddenly, he surrenders to the strong arms of a man hugging him from behind.”
Dante Buu’s “oh Honey, you are not a Terrorist (924 hours)”, the first of his embroidery graffiti, is of the tender worlds whispered without shame into the gentle ears of outcasts, dropouts, and misfits of all kinds. With eyes closed, Buu writes from left to right, and with eyes open, he embroiders from right to left, choosing the thread colors intuitively and leaving the blood drops of his pierced fingers on the canvas.
With the embroidery graffiti, Dante Buu Embroidery expands into textual artworks that further explore intuition and chance. In a quest of bringing the creation of an artwork in its purest form and bring into being new aesthetics, Dante, much like Jonas, willingly surrenders himself to the unknown, desired and fearless. It was created over the course of 77 days in Athens, during the holy month of Ramadan, while the winter transformed into the spring.Dante Buu Embroidery is intuitive. He randomly reaches out for an embroidery thread of any color from his collection of second-hand, waste material and new threads, then starts embroidering according to his mood at the moment, until that thread ends − until it becomes a field of color, a form, a malleable feeling*.
*Excerpt from “Malleable Feelings: Dante Buu Embroidery” by Nuno de Brito Rocha, published in the catalog of Pavilion of Montenegro, The 59th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia 2022.
