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#glitch
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November 18, 2021
Grace Ebert
Azerbaijani artist Faig Ahmed (beforehand) has amassed a staggering archive of sculptural carpets that blur the boundaries of digital distortion and conventional craft strategies. Typically monumental in scale, his fringed rugs are woven with traditional, ornate patterns on high earlier than they billow right into a pool of glitches and skewed motifs.
Ahmed weaves conceptual and historic relevances into his most up-to-date trio, which is on view as a part of his solo present PIR at New York’s Sapar Modern via January 6, 2022. Every bit attracts its title from a religious chief who profoundly impacted Azerbaijani tradition, together with Shams Tabrizi, Yahya al-Shirvani al-Bakuvi, and Nizami Ganjavi. The carpet impressed by Tabrizi, who was Rumi’s mentor, for instance, “regularly dissolve(s) right into a black woolen house of nothingness, very like the ultimate levels of a mystic’s religious journey: annihilation (fana’) of 1’s particular person ego inside the divine presence, just like the flame of a candle within the presence of the solar.”
Go to Ahmed’s web site to see behind-the-scenes photographs of his course of and to discover a bigger assortment of his fiber-based sculptures.
#glitch
#rugs
#sculpture
#textiles
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