Anahita Razmi, Arsenals, 2012. Installation view. Courtesy the artist and Carbon 12, Dubai
Anahita Razmi
Automatic Assembly Actions
14 January – 14 March 2013
at Carbon 12, Dubai
Many worlds collide in Razmi’s work: cultural spheres, semantic frameworks, art history, politics, and some of them together. Through appropriation of heritage, symbols, and even other artists ideas, contexts are redefined and concepts juxtaposed. Razmi attacks these systems directly, honestly and relentlessly. Free from conceptual restraints; any surplus is discarded until only the message itself remains.
Introspection and agitation are the two columns of Razmi’s work that are in constant oscillation: creating a tension, where reconciliation is often only possible on a metaphorical meta-level. Boundaries are ignored and borders are crossed: the personal and the political are not to be distinguished, while the modes of production speak for themselves. The title ‘Automatic Assembly Actions’ is a direct reflection of Razmi’s approach. Pictures and artifacts from very different cultural, artistic and social contexts are remixed, almost automatically, to form new layers of meaning and to further deconstruct their inherent mediated presumptions. [read the full text here]
Carbon 12
Warehouse D37,
Alserkal Avenue,
Street 8, Al Quoz 1
P.O.Box 214437,
Dubai, UAE
carbon12dubai.com
Opening hours
Saturday – Thursday: 11h30 — 19h00
Fridays closed
Anahita Razmi, House of strength, 2012. Video still. Courtesy the artist and Carbon 12, Dubai
Anahita Razmi, Re/Cut Piece, 2012. Performance view on 14 Jan. 2013. Courtesy the artist and Carbon 12, Dubai
Anahita Razmi,You have no idea of faith, 2012. Hand woven wool carpet with laser cut letters. Courtesy the artist and Carbon 12, Dubai
Anahita Razmi, Arsenal, 2012. Video still. Courtesy the artist and Carbon 12, Dubai