OPENING: October 8, 2024, 7-10 p.m.

In her solo exhibition To See Clearly at Bildraum 01, Noushin Redjaian, winner of the PARALLEL VIENNA | Bildrecht YOUNG ARTIST Award 2023, explores the areas of history, science and racism in a combination of forms, materials and content. In doing so, she explores the commonalities of all people – regardless of origin, skin color or cultural background – and refers to the fundamental unity of all life, which is shaped by shared DNA and individual memories and emotions.

“Every carpet, writes artist Noushin Redjaian, is a poem that only the hand that wove it understands: A craft with a centuries-old tradition that has been passed down from generation to generation is the linchpin of Noushin Redjaian’s artistic work, which focuses on questions of origin and cultural exchange.

Noushin Redjaian studies the ornamentation and symbolic language of Persian textile art and translates it into a contemporary context, extracting individual forms in order to use them as templates for her textile artifacts. The tradition of the Orient is recontextualized, the textile, which the artist acquires on the Internet or at flea markets, is fixed with a crystalline layer.

With the help of complex chemical processes, Redjaian allows crystals to grow on the cut carpet fragments, thus celebrating an alchemy of art that, in the tradition of the avant-garde, detaches itself from the intention of the artistic subject. Noushin Redjaian thus creates an independent work that builds a bridge between Orient and Occident and transcends conventional expectations.”

Excerpt from the jury statement PARALLEL VIENNA | Bildrecht YOUNG ARTIST Awards 2023 (Cornelis van Almsick | Galerie Zeller van Almsick; Janina Falkner | curator MAK; Franz Graf | artist; Christine Scheucher | cultural journalist Ö1; Sira-Zoé Schmid | Bildrecht)

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More information: https://www.bildrecht.at/bildraum/