2024-06-16 06:57:32
The YARAT Middle for Modern Artwork hosted the opening of two exhibitions – a private exhibition of the well-known Azerbaijani and Russian artist Aidan Salakhova “Voices of Silence” and a gaggle exhibition of artists “Unobserved Desires”, Day.Az experiences.
“Voices of Silence” is Aidan Salakhova’s first large-scale museum exhibition in Baku. The exhibition, commissioned by the YARAT Modern Artwork Area, is devoted to the worldwide downside of home violence and addresses everybody on behalf of its victims. In her venture, the artist, by way of exploring the emotional spectrum of home violence, particularly emphasizes the fears and despair of victims. The exhibition options an set up of 12 big jugs carved from aglay – a white dealing with stone, and that is the artist’s first expertise in creating works from native materials.
The principle essence of the exhibition is the voices coming from the jugs, every of which briefly “retells” tragic occasions from the household historical past of the victims, chosen from the chronicle of instances of home violence which have occurred over the previous 12 years, and highlights these issues skilled in Azerbaijan, in addition to in different nations. These voices create an emotional distinction between the aesthetic grandeur of the set up and the struggling of traumatic tales, emphasizing the significance of combating instances of violence in household relationships and publicizing these occasions within the public.
The set up “Voices of Silence”, turning into an emblem of hope and remembrance, encourages condemnation of all types of violence and reflection on the significance of counteracting it.
“The exhibition is a name for dialogue, mutual understanding and solidarity, selling the constructing of an knowledgeable and secure society for everybody. This exhibition calls on us to interrupt the collective silence in regards to the details of home violence and construct a society through which everybody can stay with out concern and cruelty,” famous the curator of the exhibition Farah Alakbarli.
The exhibition “Unobserved Desires” introduced collectively video works saved within the YARAT assortment, in addition to video works created over time by order and as a part of numerous collaboration tasks by Zamir Suleymanov, Emin Azizbeyli, Shalala Salamzadeh, Rasul Guliyev, Vazhiko Chachkhiani, Ritz Monet and Timo Herbst.
The group exhibition “Unobserved Desires” focuses on the varied realities of society and the fully contradictory needs that come up from them. This exhibition explores how social values and financial prosperity give option to crises in a contemporary world full of fast change and sudden challenges, and the way these modifications have an effect on totally different sectors of society. How, because of this course of, a extra nuanced and sophisticated panorama of society emerges, reflecting its very delicate and various features.
Artists, adapting mythological references to trendy realities, attempt to “voice” the “pipe desires” of their heroes within the video works they create.
The exhibition opens with Shalala Salamzadeh’s video “Dystopia,” created for a gaggle exhibition referred to as “Metropolis of the Solar” in 2021. In her video work based mostly on the mythology of Azerbaijan, the artist argues that folks expelled from undesirable locations (dystopias) should return to fascinating locations (utopias).
Rasul Guliyev’s 3-channel video entitled “Infinite Competitors”, offered on the similar exhibition, relies on the legend of Pandora’s Field and tells how hope forces folks to enter into infinite competitions. And the Italian artist Ritz Monet, who turned a YARAT resident in 2019, in his 2-channel video shares ideas a couple of collective dream that may unite all of the peoples of the Eurozone by way of cash, and attracts a parallel with the identical kind of architectural and sculptural monuments constructed all through the Soviet Union.
One other YARAT resident, German artist Timo Herbst, in his video “Baku/Baku – Mom Tongue” creates a extremely differentiated and really delicate picture of society.
The movie by the Georgian artist Vazhiko Chachkhiani “Trembling Coronary heart” refers back to the well-known Georgian fairy story, which, like all Georgian folklore, with none examine, delves into the ideas of household, nationwide and private identification.
The ultimate video of the exhibition, “Astar” (“The Inside Out”) from the YARAT assortment, shot by Zamir Suleymanov in collaboration with Emin Azizbeyli, voices the theme of despair that comes in the intervening time of drying up of desires and hope, by revealing the “inside aspect” of the imaginary lifetime of Azerbaijani youth by way of the picture of a younger man.
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