SB13 in Sharjah
10. März - 12. Juni 2017. Kuratorin: Christine Tohmé. Ausstellung, Programme, Projekte in Sharjah mit Arbeiten von 73 Teilnehmern.
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Antedoom, 2017
Multimedia installation, writing by Mirene Arsanios
Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation
Venue: Calligraphy Centre, Calligraphy Square
Setareh Shahbazi is best known for her drawings and installations, which are primarily based on found visual material and digitally manipulated by the artist. Although the human figure has always featured prominently in her compositions, as she often draws from old portraits and photographs, the artist’s more recent output has positioned the human figure, and increasingly the body, at the centre of contemporary image-making practices that exceed the medium of photography.
Shahbazi’s SB13 commission emerges from her inability to grapple with violence inflicted on the body, which is captured not only through the production of images but also in their circulation. Conceived around a litany of terms, including ‘wound’, ‘scar’, ‘orthopaedics’, ‘bones’ and ‘chemical substances’, Antedoom (2017) is Shahbazi’s way of translating the unrepresentable brutality of our daily newsfeeds. In the work, she focuses on the ability of radiation to penetrate the body, both in its use within medicine as well as its deployment at border inspections through body scanners and other forms of surveillance. Shahbazi’s installation features an object referring to an MRI/CT machine, along with a visual component, sound elements and a dialogue written by Mirene Arsanios that convey a sense of vulnerability in light of shifting borders between the private and the public body.
This work has been kindly supported by Goethe-Institut.
(From the SB13 Guidebook)
* 1978, Tehran, Iran. Lives in Berlin, Germany.
© Photo: Haupt & Binder
10. März - 12. Juni 2017. Kuratorin: Christine Tohmé. Ausstellung, Programme, Projekte in Sharjah mit Arbeiten von 73 Teilnehmern.