Work and set up investigating how the self is shaped and perceived by Iranian painter Nava Sabet-Imani. Sabet-Imani studied portray on the School of Artwork and Structure at Islamic Azad College in Tehran. She additionally holds a grasp’s diploma in Agricultural Engineering, with a specialization in medicinal crops. Sabet-Imani’s inventive apply is anxious with how identification, pictures, and types are formed by way of repetition, juxtaposition, and transformation. Having grown up with a twin sister, her work incorporates private expertise and reflections on the strain between resemblance and distinction, and on how identification is shaped by way of acts of comparability. By means of shifts in scale, framing, and visible construction, her work invite viewers to rethink how types are perceived and what they could change into.
“Components of the physique, equivalent to fingers and faces, which frequently belong to girls, are positioned alongside each other; as if they’ve been added or eliminated, as if every work has taken form by way of a sequence of edits. These types could seem just like each other, but stay distinct, creating an area for doubt. This juxtaposition and repetition are linked to the idea of ‘show’ as a acutely aware state of being seen. The types are usually not merely current within the picture, however are positioned able the place they will really be seen. From this angle, ‘show’ turns into one thing synthetic—not in its frequent unfavourable sense of one thing engineered and managed, however within the sense of one thing consciously formed to be seen. On this sequence, seeing is an inseparable aspect of the work, and repetition makes potential a dialogue that goes past resemblance.”
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