DISCREETLY LIVING BEHIND YOUR FACE
von
POOYA ABBASIAN, ANDREA KOFINAS, ALI OSTOVAR
Eröffnung: Donnerstag, 19.04.2018, 19:00 Uhr
Ausstellung: 20.04.2018 – 11.05.2018
The exhibition _Discreetly living behind your face_ results from a
project undertaken by Pooya Abbasian for more than 5 years. His
approach, both sensible and plastic, opens as a well a reflexion on
social norms and the search for an identity through alterity.
Inspired by the cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky and José Luis Guerín, his
work challenges photography and plays with the grid driving images’
creation and diffusion. Both a eulogy of the contemporary pixel and a
reclaiming of the old cyanotype method, he intends to preserve the
digital trace on analogue prints. Maybe more of a painter than a
photographer, Pooya Abbasian celebrates the poetry of the poor image, a
blurriness that gives room to imagination. Original prints, pictures
found on the internet and film shots make up a very personal
iconography, freed from genre imperatives.
Taken on the sly, from the back, and playing with environmental
constraints, the pictures are the impressions of a benevolent voyeur.
The poetry is to be found in his obsession for keeping his models’
identity secret: he is not interested in the verdict given by face
features but rather by the harmony of neck’s lines.
Öffnungszeiten:
mittwochs und donnerstags von 12 bis 16 Uhr
Oder, nach Absprache unter galerie52@folkwang-uni.de, auch montags bis samstags