Fariba Hajamadi (born 1957; Persian: فریبا حجامدی) is an Iranian-born American painter, installation artist, and photographer. Her work is created on fabric, canvas,[1] and wood panels, often presented as large scale installations. Hajamadi work investigates cultural and gender Identity, as well as narratives of displacement, and dissects the cultural institution from the point of view of a cultural outsider both as a woman and as someone born in a non-Western culture.[2] She lives in New York City.
Fariba Hajamadi | |
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فریبا حجامدی | |
Born | 1957 (age 66–67) Isfahan, Pahlavi Iran (now Iran) |
Education | Western Michigan University (BFA), California Institute of the Arts (MFA) |
Occupation(s) | Painter, photographer, installation artist |
Website | www |
Background
editFariba Hajamadi was born in 1957, in Isfahan, Pahlavi Iran (now Iran).[3][4]
She left her native country of Iran in 1976, to pursue fine arts studies and received her BFA degree in painting from Western Michigan University.[citation needed] Hajamadi subsequently received her MFA degree at the California Institute of the Arts (Cal Arts),[2][5] studying under Jonathan Borofsky, and first generation conceptual artists John Baldessari, Michael Asher.[citation needed] Her fellow students included Ashley Bickerton, Christopher Williams, Kate Ericson, Mel Ziegler and Bill Wurtz.[citation needed]
Artwork
editThe starting point, for Hajamadi, is her photographs of the interiors of institutions devoted to the preservation of art and culture.[citation needed] Her large scale works are a seamless collage made by compositing multiple layers of photographs, of the same location from different vantage points or by combining different locations. A new interior with a forced symmetry and perspective allows the viewer to see an interior from the center and the periphery at the same time. Her architectural interiors are fictional, dense with meaning, and have a quality of displacement that verges on the surreal. Her work where the line between photography and painting are blurred engages the viewer in a discourse on cultural identities, representation of the female, photography and historical truths. Since the 1980s, Fariba Hajamadi has been producing artworks that set out to diagram and re-construct the Western narrative of the “Other". Her use of such critical tactics began before they had entered the mainstream of contemporary artistic practice. Hajamadi began by examining the museum as the locus of Occidental civilization's reading of non-Western forms and practices. Hajamadi tacitly declared it to be something like the scene of a perpetual crime against humanity, insofar as it enshrines the trophies of a deep cultural misunderstanding.[2]
In her site specific installations Hajamadi created a series of wallpapers, reminiscent of toile de Jouy, with four themes Hunt, War, Eros and Rape...[6] Hajamadi has developed a unique art practice; a hybrid of photography, painting and installation, that endeavors to invent a relationship to the slippery conditions of autobiography.[7] She stretches the parameters of photography to achieve work of profound emotional resonance. One of the most powerful qualities of Hajamadi's work has been its psychological weight, which channels the mind's eye into her charged spaces.[8]
Exhibition
editHajamadi has exhibited her work and installations in the United States and internationally since mid 1980s. Some of her solo exhibitions include: Musée de La Roche-sur-Yon,[9] ICA Philadelphia,[10] Queens Museum.[11] Rhona Hoffman Gallery[12] Chicago, Christine Burgin[5] New York, Gallerie Laage-Salomon,[13] Paris, Maureen Paley[14] London.
Group exhibitions
editHajamadi has participated in numerous group exhibitions throughout her career. Some of these include:
- Departure Lounge, MoMA PS1, New York[citation needed]
- Fake, The New Museum, New York[citation needed]
- Transmute, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago[citation needed]
- L’Hiver de l’Amour, MAM/ARC Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris[citation needed]
- Echolot, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany[citation needed]
- Strange Home, Museum August Kestner, Hannover, Germany[citation needed]
- Remote Connections, Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku, Finland[citation needed]
- Ecbatana, Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark[citation needed]
- Remote Connections, Neue Galerie Graz, Austria[citation needed]
- ORIENT/ATION, Fourth Biennial of Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey[15]
- Altrove fra immagine e identità, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Prato[citation needed]
Literature
edit- Ulla Angkjær Jørgensen, Exploring the Black Venus Figure in Aesthetic Practices,[16] ISBN 978-9004395206. p178-182
- Dan Cameron, Reconciling Opposites, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany. ISBN 3-927015-09-1. 32 p.
- Joshua Decter, Fariba Hajamadi: The Invention of Disappearance, Musée de La Roche-sur-Yon,[17] France ISBN 2908117428. 18 p.
- Joshua Decter, The Invisible Mirror of Memory, Galeries Magazine No36 APR/MAY 1990. 108-109
- Gary Indiana Fariba Hajamadi, ICA, Philadelphia
- Chris Dercon, A Different corner, Museo de Arte Moderno Archived 2021-01-16 at the Wayback Machine, Cuenca, Ecuador
- Rosetta Brooks, Fariba Hajamadi: 20/20 Vision, CEPA Journal, Winter
References
edit- ^ Smith, Roberta (1987-04-17). "Art: Annette Lemieux in 2 Mixed-Media Shows". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
- ^ a b c Hajamadi, Fariba (1998). Fariba Hajamadi. Hajamadi, Fariba, Block, René, Museum Fridericianum, Ausstellung "Echolot oder 9 Fragen an die Peripherie" 1998.03.22-06.07 Kassel. Kassel: Museum Fridericianum. ISBN 3-927015-09-1. OCLC 246233302.
- ^ "Fariba Hajamadi | Centre Pompidou". www.centrepompidou.fr (in French). Retrieved 2020-03-07.
- ^ Fricke, Harald (1997-05-12). "Karawane der Globalisierung". Die Tageszeitung: taz (in German). p. 14. ISSN 0931-9085. Retrieved 2020-03-14.
- ^ a b "Christine Burgin Gallery". www.christineburgin.com. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
- ^ "Olivier Zahm on Fariba Hajamadi". www.artforum.com. 3 January 1994. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
- ^ Decter, Joshua (1994). Fariba Hajamadi. France: musée municipal de la Roche-sur-Yon.
- ^ Mary Ellen, Haus (1988). "Fariba Hajamadi". Artnews.
- ^ Imbernon, Laurence; Decter, Joshua (1994). Fariba Hajamadi: [exposition], 1994, musée municipal de la Roche-sur-Yon. La Roche-sur-Yon: Musée municipal. OCLC 34504526.
- ^ "Investigations 20: Fariba Hajamadi - ICA Philadelphia". Institute of Contemporary Art - Philadelphia, PA. 2013-08-30. Retrieved 2020-03-14.
- ^ New York Magazine. New York Media, LLC. 1987-07-13.
- ^ McCracken, David (September 14, 1990). "Chicago Tribune".
- ^ "Grabrielle Salomon Art Conseil". Gabriellesalomon.com.
- ^ "MAUREEN PALEY – PAST EXHIBITIONS 1984 — 2004" (PDF). maureenpaley.com.
- ^ "4th International Istanbul Biennial". bienal.iksv.org. Retrieved 2020-03-14.
- ^ Jorgensen, Ulla Angkjaer (August 2019). Exploring the Black Venus Figure in Aesthetic Practices. BRILL. pp. 178–182. ISBN 978-9004395206.
- ^ Decter, Joshua (1994). Fariba Hajamadi: The Invention of Disappearance. France: Musée de la Roche sur Yon. ISBN 2908117428.