Shirana Shahbazi, Objects in Mirror Are Closer than They Appear, Installation view, Kunsthaus Hamburg 2018
Shirana Shahbazi: artist talk
Sunday, 26 August, 3 pm
At the closing event of her exhibition Objects in Mirror Are Closer than They Appear, Shirana Shahbazi is going to talk about her artistic career and the development of her works over the past years.
In her work, Shirana Shahbazi embraces two fundamental attributes that make the photographic image so fascinating up to the present day: its precision in the representation of reality as well as its capacity of capturing the ephemeral moment. First and foremost, her work elucidates that perception is an elaborate construction process that never depicts reality, but rather stages it. The artist is equally adept in the technical means of reproduction and in the treatment of light, space, and structure. It appears as if Shahbazi’s works are not products of a representation of reality; rather, with her camera eye and by applying the full range of reproduction techniques she creates an autonomous pictorial reality.