Salome Ghazanfari
20 Mar - 26 Apr 2014
SALOME GHAZANFARI
20 March - 26 April 2014
ANCIENT & MODERN presents “Off the Wall” by Salome Ghazanfari, her first solo exhibition in London. Ghazanfari uses the aesthetic of billboards and street advertisements to frame an appropriation of images from everyday ‘street’ life. Often prompted by her broad curiosity in different social groups, cultures and countries, her brand of tourism navigates different clubs as much as it does landmass. With images encompassing motorbikes, cars, drugs and ‘situations dangereux’, graffitti on walls or trees, Ghazanfari often focusses in upon, and overlays the original of, the selected object so that eventually it almost vanishes, an end point refuted through the application of the final image directly on the wall to fix a permanent landscape of its own. Parallel to this seemingly casual editorial activity she includes in her ‘photography’ practice images of body casts that in combination with other objects, such as a fire extinguisher or ashtray, reinstates a depersonalised and universal encounter.
Salome Ghazanfari (b.1982) lives in Berlin / studied Fine Art in Karlsruhe, Germany and at Goldsmith College, London. Recent solo presentations were ‘United Colours’ with Felix Oehmann, Cruise&Callas, Berlin / ‘Spiegelreflex’, Florian Christopher, Zurich. Salome was included in ReMap 4, Athens / ‘Waiting for Lexus’, MCAAL 2013 / Bloomberg New Contemporaries, ICA 2012 / 7th Liverpool Biennial. In May she will show at PS - Projectspace, Amsterdam.
20 March - 26 April 2014
ANCIENT & MODERN presents “Off the Wall” by Salome Ghazanfari, her first solo exhibition in London. Ghazanfari uses the aesthetic of billboards and street advertisements to frame an appropriation of images from everyday ‘street’ life. Often prompted by her broad curiosity in different social groups, cultures and countries, her brand of tourism navigates different clubs as much as it does landmass. With images encompassing motorbikes, cars, drugs and ‘situations dangereux’, graffitti on walls or trees, Ghazanfari often focusses in upon, and overlays the original of, the selected object so that eventually it almost vanishes, an end point refuted through the application of the final image directly on the wall to fix a permanent landscape of its own. Parallel to this seemingly casual editorial activity she includes in her ‘photography’ practice images of body casts that in combination with other objects, such as a fire extinguisher or ashtray, reinstates a depersonalised and universal encounter.
Salome Ghazanfari (b.1982) lives in Berlin / studied Fine Art in Karlsruhe, Germany and at Goldsmith College, London. Recent solo presentations were ‘United Colours’ with Felix Oehmann, Cruise&Callas, Berlin / ‘Spiegelreflex’, Florian Christopher, Zurich. Salome was included in ReMap 4, Athens / ‘Waiting for Lexus’, MCAAL 2013 / Bloomberg New Contemporaries, ICA 2012 / 7th Liverpool Biennial. In May she will show at PS - Projectspace, Amsterdam.