Farkhondeh Shahroudi
Gestern war ich so müde dass ich den tee gegessen habe
17 Feb - 16 Apr 2023
Farkhondeh Shahroudi, exhibition view at Kunstverein Arnsberg 2023, photo: Heiner Lieberum
Farkhondeh Shahroudi, exhibition view at Kunstverein Arnsberg 2023, photo: Heiner Lieberum
Farkhondeh Shahroudi, aaaaber
Farbe, Textil, Stein, 140 x 90 x 30 cm, 2021-2022
Photo: Piotr Pietrus
Farbe, Textil, Stein, 140 x 90 x 30 cm, 2021-2022
Photo: Piotr Pietrus
Farkhondeh Shahroudi, exhibition view at Kunstverein Arnsberg 2023, photo: Heiner Lieberum
Farkhondeh Shahroudi, exhibition view at Kunstverein Arnsberg 2023, photo: Heiner Lieberum
Farkhondeh Shahroudi, exhibition view at Kunstverein Arnsberg 2023, photo: Heiner Lieberum
Farkhondeh Shahroudi, exhibition view at Kunstverein Arnsberg 2023, photo: Heiner Lieberum
Farkhondeh Shahroudi, exhibition view at Kunstverein Arnsberg 2023, photo: Heiner Lieberum
Farkhondeh Shahroudi, liegende
Textil, 180 x 35 x 120 cm, 2021
Photo credit: Heiner Lieberum
Textil, 180 x 35 x 120 cm, 2021
Photo credit: Heiner Lieberum
Farkhondeh Shahroudi, exhibition view at Kunstverein Arnsberg 2023, photo: Heiner Lieberum
In the three-part project Das Theater in jede*m von uns (The theater in each one of us), 17.02 - 30.06.2023, Kunstverein Arnsberg explores and investigates how processes and spaces of theater are given a form in visual art and in our everyday life.
The series begins with the solo exhibition of Farkhondeh Shahroudi gestern war ich so müde dass ich den tee gegessen habe (yesterday I was so tired that I ate the tea): a sculptural fabric of poetic, social and political texture.
Farkhondeh Shahroudi‘s artworks are drawn from the intertwined relationships between writing and image, between bodies and narration. Inspired by the poetry and memories of Iran and her everyday life in Germany, her works relate to verbal language and speechlessness. They evoke the unspoken. Her work addresses translocated movements of people who are at the mercy of others, uprooted or dislocated, moving between places and worlds as if in a play. Many figures in Shahroudi‘ s work are reminiscent of traditional Iranian theater, “Ta‘ziyeh,” where actors, spectators, and animals blur into a single entity on the
street. In this way, images, bodies, and narratives are transformed through her handwriting, through sewing and weaving with different materials, into a synthetic universe that oscillates between social and asocial, political and private, public and intimate, between the inside and the outside, between language and illegibility.
The exhibition at Kunstverein Arnsberg combines paintings, objects and photography from the artist‘s earlier creation, as well as newly conceived installations and drawings. Most of the works are exhibited for the first time and shown in an exhibition choreography that is based on storytelling and invites the audience to immerse into the multilayered inner landscapes of Farkhondeh Shahroudi‘s work.
In the course of the exhibition, 15.04, Shahroudi will present a performance in public space. In “sang zani” (= knocking stones), the audience and the city residents will be invited to knock two stones on top of each other to predefined rhythms. This sound procession is performed by Shahroudi herself, dressed in the performative costume “of weeping trees” made from
rubber tires.
The series begins with the solo exhibition of Farkhondeh Shahroudi gestern war ich so müde dass ich den tee gegessen habe (yesterday I was so tired that I ate the tea): a sculptural fabric of poetic, social and political texture.
Farkhondeh Shahroudi‘s artworks are drawn from the intertwined relationships between writing and image, between bodies and narration. Inspired by the poetry and memories of Iran and her everyday life in Germany, her works relate to verbal language and speechlessness. They evoke the unspoken. Her work addresses translocated movements of people who are at the mercy of others, uprooted or dislocated, moving between places and worlds as if in a play. Many figures in Shahroudi‘ s work are reminiscent of traditional Iranian theater, “Ta‘ziyeh,” where actors, spectators, and animals blur into a single entity on the
street. In this way, images, bodies, and narratives are transformed through her handwriting, through sewing and weaving with different materials, into a synthetic universe that oscillates between social and asocial, political and private, public and intimate, between the inside and the outside, between language and illegibility.
The exhibition at Kunstverein Arnsberg combines paintings, objects and photography from the artist‘s earlier creation, as well as newly conceived installations and drawings. Most of the works are exhibited for the first time and shown in an exhibition choreography that is based on storytelling and invites the audience to immerse into the multilayered inner landscapes of Farkhondeh Shahroudi‘s work.
In the course of the exhibition, 15.04, Shahroudi will present a performance in public space. In “sang zani” (= knocking stones), the audience and the city residents will be invited to knock two stones on top of each other to predefined rhythms. This sound procession is performed by Shahroudi herself, dressed in the performative costume “of weeping trees” made from
rubber tires.