2024-06-10 18:43:33
On the YARAT Heart for Modern Artwork on June 13 at 19:00 there might be a gap of two exhibitions – a private exhibition of multidisciplinary artist Aidan Salakhova “Voices of Silence” and a gaggle exhibition of artists “Unobserved Goals”, stories Day.Az.
“Voices of Silence” is Aidan Salakhova’s first large-scale museum exhibition in Baku. The exhibition, commissioned by YARAT, is devoted to the worldwide downside of home violence and appeals to everybody on behalf of its victims. In her undertaking, the artist, by means of exploring the emotional spectrum of home violence, particularly emphasizes the fears and despair of victims. The exhibition options an set up of 12 enormous jugs carved from aglay – a white dealing with stone, and that is the artist’s first expertise in creating works from native materials.
The primary 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 circumstances 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 circumstances of violence in household relationships and publicizing these occasions within the public.
The set up “Voices of Silence”, turning into a logo 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 about home violence and construct a society wherein everybody can stay with out concern and cruelty.
The curator of the exhibition is Farah Alakbarli.
Aidan Salakhova (born 1964 in Moscow) is an artist, sculptor and trainer. In 1987, she graduated from the Moscow State Tutorial Artwork Institute named after V.I. Surikov. Since 1988 he has been a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR. Aidan Salakhova was one of many organizers and co-authors of the First Gallery, which is taken into account the primary up to date artwork gallery opened in Moscow (1989-1992). She later based the Aidan gallery, which operated from 1992 to 2012. In 2002, the artist was awarded a silver medal of the Russian Academy of Arts. From 2002 to 2007 she was a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Arts, and since 2007 she has turn into a full member. In her work, Aidan Salakhova explores the interplay of East and West, inside prohibitions and freedom, masculinity and femininity, in addition to the function of girls on the planet and their picture in artwork. The artist has held a number of solo exhibitions, together with “L’escala daurada” (Imaginart, Spain, 2023); “Hidden Decoration” (Triumph Gallery, Russia, 2022); “New Saints” (Marble Palace of the Russian Museum, Russia, 2021); “The Mud Turned the Breath” (Gazelli Artwork Home, UK, 2021); “Vices et vertus” (St. Loupe Church, Belgium, 2017); “Stability” (Cuadro Modern Artwork Gallery, UAE, 2017) and others. She has additionally participated in quite a few group exhibitions, together with “La voz velada” (La Neomudejar Museum, Spain, 2024); “Compressed Reminiscence” (Gazelli Artwork Home, Azerbaijan, 2023); “Fragility” (MIA Artwork Assortment, UAE, 2023); “Named Vasari. Revival” (Arsenal, Volga-Vyatka department of the State Museum of Tremendous Arts named after A.S. Pushkin, Russia, 2022); “Non-public Area” (RuArts Gallery, Russia, 2022); seventeenth Istanbul Biennale (2022); “My One and Solely” (Mario Mauroner Modern Artwork, Austria, 2022) and others.
The exhibition “Unobserved Goals” introduced collectively video works saved within the YARAT assortment, in addition to video works created over time by order and as a part of varied collaboration initiatives by Zamir Suleymanov, Emin Azizbeyli, Shalala Salamzadeh, Rasul Guliyev, Vazhiko Chachkhiani, Ritz Monet and Timo Herbst.
The group exhibition “Unobserved Goals” focuses on the assorted realities of society and the utterly contradictory needs that come up from them. This exhibition explores how social values and financial prosperity give option to crises in a contemporary world stuffed with speedy change and sudden challenges, and the way these adjustments have an effect on totally different sectors of society. How, on account of this course of, a extra nuanced and complicated panorama of society emerges, reflecting its very delicate and various points.
Artists, adapting mythological references to fashionable realities, attempt to “voice” the “pipe goals” of their heroes within the video works they create.
The exhibition opens with Shalala Salamzadeh’s video “Dystopia,” created for a gaggle exhibition known 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 “Countless Competitors”, offered on the identical exhibition, is predicated on the legend of Pandora’s Field and tells how hope forces individuals to enter into infinite competitions. And the Italian artist Ritz Monet, who grew to become 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 means of cash, and attracts a parallel with the identical sort 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 id.
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 goals and hope, by revealing the “internal aspect” of the imaginary lifetime of Azerbaijani youth by means of the picture of a younger man.
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