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Berlin Exhibit Celebrates Art of Paying Attention

Berlin Exhibit Celebrates Art of Paying Attention

TEHRAN.(Iranart) – F actory TT, an art education platform with branches in Iran and Germany, has organized a program ‘Beyond the Exhibit 3.14’ in Berlin.

The event is slated for March 2-April 15 and will be hosted by Katharina Maria Raab Gallery in Berlin, according to a press release by Factory TT.

Factory TT was created in 2016 by video and installation artist Shahram Entekhabi and graphic designer and photographer Asieh Salimian. The two planned the event after finding out that the image of Iranian art in the West is seemingly limited to a few curators who mostly detach a few contemporary works from a limited number of galleries.

The project ‘Beyond the Exhibition: Contextualizing of Emerging Iranian Artists’ seeks to introduce Iranian talent born after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

According to organizers, the title of the exhibit shows that the project goes beyond the mere presentation of artistic works. The works are accompanied by videos including interviews with the creators.

The interviews are conducted by Entekhabi. Finalized in form of video clips, they shed light on the social status of the artists, their artistic careers, working environment and recurrent themes.

There are plans to hold a series of exhibitions in various locations in Germany and elsewhere. 

The event is loosely based on Belgian philosopher Isabelle Stengers’ thought about the ‘art of paying attention.’ She characterizes ‘paying attention’ as an art that brings into play connections people tend to keep separate.

The event is an emphasis on how artists focus on daily life, how they take care of everyday life and situations familiar to everyone.

  Participating Artists

All the 12 artists participating at the exhibit have completed an academic major and are trying to work as full-time artists. Entekhabi and Salimian selected them based on their social presence and how their works are received in their own environment.

Painter Shaqayeq Ahmadian from Mazandaran Province in northern Iran is one of the artists. She criticizes the formal and tenets of the country’s academic system.

After her law studies, Negar Alemzadeh-Gorji turned exclusively to painting. In her works, she questions stereotypical gender roles.

Mustafa Choubtarash, a painter from Dezful in Khuzestan Province, southern Iran, is working on the effects of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war.

Photographer, painter, sculptor and installation artist Negar Qiamat addresses the vulnerability of man and nature.

Illustrator Fahimeh Haqiqi is from Isfahan and works as a painting teacher for children on the margins of society.

Also from Isfahan is Sara Hosseini Sefid-Dashti whose photorealistic paintings depict the situation of women in public places and the psycho-social impact of violence on society.

In his drawings and installation art, sketch artist and painter Mehrdad Jafari from Mazandaran focuses on the decisions and developments leading to migration.

Painter Alireza Nekoui experiments with the concept of space and deals with isolation and exclusion in society.

Sculptor and painter Rouhangiz Safarinejad criticizes the exploding consumerism in her works seeks to address the impact of industry on environment. Rene Saheb is a painter and sculptor whose frequent topics are communication formulas and language barriers.

Photos by sketch artist and photographer Farzin Shadmehr show women beyond traditional role models, and Shahryar Rezai from the desert town of Kerman in Central Iran focuses on the crucial subject of rural migration.

 

Beyond the Exhibit 3.14
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