Calligraphy Square
Part 3 of the photo tour of Sharjah Biennial 12, 5 March - 5 June 2015. Curator: Eungie Joo; Associate Curator: Ryan Inouye. 51 artists and groups.
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Venue: Souq Al Shanasiyah
Using a pair of scissors, Kazem scratches into textured paper to create Braille-like marks that suggest a delicate poetics of form. His scratches are a visualisation of a composition, not in the sense of a musical score but rather as a fundamental and intuitive form of expression.
In Sound of Angles (2014), Kazem employs the same technique to scratch a series of shapes on paper that refer to the angles created when opening doors. Kazem draws an analogy between the uncalculated angles of the opening of doors and the defining moment in his series, when he traces a line with a cutter without measurement. This installation of Sound of Angles includes a door that bears the signs of human hands pushing through it over time in the form of abrasions and missing flecks of paint.
© Photo: Haupt & Binder
Part 3 of the photo tour of Sharjah Biennial 12, 5 March - 5 June 2015. Curator: Eungie Joo; Associate Curator: Ryan Inouye. 51 artists and groups.