{"id":40404,"date":"2017-11-02T10:27:54","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T09:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/camera-austria.at\/?p=40404"},"modified":"2017-11-02T10:23:20","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T09:23:20","slug":"exhibition-shirana-shahbazi-group-show-for-oslo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camera-austria.at\/en\/2017\/11\/exhibition-shirana-shahbazi-group-show-for-oslo\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibition: Shirana Shahbazi. Group Show for Oslo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fotogalleriet<\/a>, Oslo, 03. 11. \u2013 17. 12. 2017<\/h4>\n
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Fotogalleriet is pleased to announce its forthcoming solo exhibition with Zurich-based artist Shirana Shahbazi<\/strong>. Shahbazi\u2019s exhibition is the last main exhibition of Fotogalleriet\u2019s anniversary year programme, which aims to reflect on its own existence by mapping a constellation of photographic usages and presentation formats. With the opening of Shahbazi\u2019s exhibition, a dialogue is again established with the \u201cNordic Anthology\u201d exhibitions and \u201cCamera Movement\u201d film- and video programme. \u201cNordic Anthology\u201d #13 is curated by Itonje S\u00f8imer Guttormsen to re-contextualise the work of feminist filmmaker Vibeke L\u00f8kkeberg. Lene \u201cKopfkino\u201d (curated by Karoline Ugelstad) is shown as part of \u201cCamera Movement\u201d.<\/p>\n

Shirana Shahbazi\u2019s exhibition at Fotogalleriet immerses the visitor in a complex and intriguing universe of photographic images of varying motifs, techniques and formats. Set up in a salon-style presentation, Shirana Shahbazi has selected nearly fifty art works in collaboration with Fotogalleriet from her own oeuvre, incorporating works from the 1990s until today, thus spanning over a period of twenty years. The result is a montage of photographic images that gives the viewer the possibility not only to deeply engage with Shahbazi\u2019s overall work, but also reflect on what a photograph can be, what it can represent and which qualities it can acquire.<\/p>\n

Shahbazi\u2019s work thus does not present a fixed idea of photography, but rather gives an idea of the photographic: geometric compositions go in dialogue with portraits, landscapes, still life motifs, as well as monochromatic works. Some photographs have documentary qualities, while others clearly reference art historical subject matter and create a reciprocal relationship to other artistic media such as painting and sculpture. At the same time, the physical exhibition space determines how the works relate to each other and provide hitherto invisible constellations. As a result, the photographs can be seen both as individual works and in connection with one another.<\/p>\n

A significant characteristic of Shahbazi\u2019s work is that none of the photographs are found images or dependent on arbitrariness. Each photograph is carefully conceived and composed, which becomes especially visible in works that are repetitively entitled \u201cKomposition\u201d, \u201cMonstera\u201d, \u201cStilleben\u201d or \u201cSchmetterling\u201d. While one appears to be immediately seduced by the imagery, different socio-cultural connotations slowly emerge and conjure associations that initially are not visible. \u201cSchmetterling\u201d is not just a butterfly, it is a representation of a butterfly that evokes the sealed, collectible object of the lepidopterist. \u201cFrucht\u201d is not only playing with the art historical genre of the still life, it also comments on the glossiness and perfection desired in our contemporary media culture. And \u201cMonstera\u201d appears as an exotic, aestheticized plant that ironically enough is also called \u201cThe Swiss cheese plant\u201d.<\/p>\n

If we then look at photographs of petrol stations, a newly wed bride, a mountainous landscape, a white cat crouching on a sofa or some palm trees we start to understand what is at stake: our physical and mental relationship to cultural constructs and the world around us. But regardless whether the objects represented are singled out in a distinct photographic image, or if they materialize through the quasi-documentary work, Shahbazi makes us question what is in front of our eyes and at the same time indicates that there are divergent realities at play.<\/p>\n

Shirana Shahbazi<\/strong> (b. 1974) lives and works in Zurich. She studied photography at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Dortmund and Hochschule f\u00fcr Gestaltung und Kunst, Zurich.<\/p>\n

Her most recent solo exhibitions took place at Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich (2017), PARKETT Editions, Zurich (2017), KINDL Center for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2017), On Stellar Rays, New York (2016), Kunsthalle Bern, Bern (2014), Cardi Black Box, Milano (2013), Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague (2012), Foto Kunst Stadtforum, Innsbruck, Austria (2012), New Museum, New York (2011), Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur (2011), Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2010), The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2008), The Curve, Barbican Art Gallery, London (2007) and Raum f\u00fcr Fotografie, Sprengel Museum, Hanover (2006). Notably, her recent solo exhibition entitled \u201cGroup Show\u201d<\/a> at Camera Austria<\/strong>, Graz in 2016 relates to the exhibition at Fotogalleriet, having been the first iteration of grouping a large number of photographic works from Shahbazi\u2019s oeuvre within one exhibition space.<\/p>\n

Shahbazi has also participated extensively in group exhibitions, amongst them \u201cCommunities\u201d, Migros Museum f\u00fcr Gegenwartskunst, Zurich (2017), \u201cThe Other and Me\u201d, Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah (2014), \u201cLens Drawings\u201d, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris (2013), \u201cNew Photography \u201d, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2013), \u201cWunder\u201d, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg (2011), \u201cShifting Identities\u201d, Kunsthaus Z\u00fcrich, Zurich (2008), 4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2006), \u201cTraveling\u201d, Hayward Gallery, London (2005) and Sharjah Biennial 7, Sharjah (2005). Shahbazi’s works are represented in collections of major institutions internationally including The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Tate Modern, London and Migros Museum for Contemporary Art, Zurich.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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