Shahin Afrassiabi
dal 28/4/2010 al 28/5/2010
Segnalato da
28/4/2010
Shahin Afrassiabi
Limoncello Gallery (old location), London
Subject to Form. "I am interested in the real vs. the virtual. This is an opposition fraught with difficulty. More specifically I am interested in the virtual and the real in relation to spatial configurations. Building and architecture have been a running theme in my work from the start". (S. Afrassiabi)
Firstly, I think that it would be helpful if you discuss briefly what you plan to exhibit in your forthcoming exhibition at Limoncello and what is the focus of your exhibition?
“I am interested in the real vs. the virtual. This is an opposition fraught with difficulty. More specifically I am interested in the virtual and the real in relation to spatial configurations. Building and architecture have been a running theme in my work from the start. The screen and what is projected onto it or through it are each made using an analogous technique. But this similarity is like how a text is similar to its translation. It is this ontological deficit that interests me.”
You’ve previously said ‘When you make art you mean to make a better world or at least change it.’ Which could be interpreted as naïve?
“That sentence is not naïve at all. What other reasons could there be for making art? In fact art does change the world though not always for the better. The question that art poses is always pointing in this direction, of change; change of perception, of position, a question to the community and its certainties. And the impulse for this questioning is in fact ‘change’ i.e. political. The question is how this idea of the community is configured in any given work.”
How do you intend the works to expose, propose and politicize?
“Art produces value, and value produces allegiances. What art also produces is discourse and it is here, in the discourse emerging from an approach to production that any exposition, proposal or polity can be articulated.”
Shahin Afrassiabi, born 1963, Tehran, Iran, based London, gained his MA Visual Arts from Goldsmiths College (1997). Recent solo exhibitions include, ‘Developing Strategies of Demolition’, a Lecture delivered at the Berlage Institute, Rotterdam as well as international group shows.
Opening Thursday 29 April, 6.30-8.30pm
Limoncello Gallery
15a Cremer Street - London
Open Thursday – Saturday, 11am – 6pm and by appointment
free admission