WAVING FLAGS PROJECT:
Step 1: Reading Sara Rahbar's bio
Step 2: Look through all of the Waving Flags she created... Pay attention to what she is representing in her different flags (symbology) and how she created each flag (composition)
Step 3: Read artist statement (on bottom of blog)
Step 4: Put computer to sleep, plug back in, come see Michael... Tell him 1 thing you though about the identity symbology and 1 thing about the composition (how she created the flags).
Step 1: Reading Sara Rahbar's bio
Step 2: Look through all of the Waving Flags she created... Pay attention to what she is representing in her different flags (symbology) and how she created each flag (composition)
Step 3: Read artist statement (on bottom of blog)
Step 4: Put computer to sleep, plug back in, come see Michael... Tell him 1 thing you though about the identity symbology and 1 thing about the composition (how she created the flags).
SARA RAHBAR - bio
Is a contemporary mixed
media artist born in Tehran in 1976 and
lives and works in New York
Rahbar pursued an
interdisciplinary study program in New York and also studied at Central Saint
Martins College of Art and design in London.
Her work ranges from
photography to sculpture to installation and always stems from her personal
experiences and is largely autobiographical. The first body of work that
created international recognition for the artist was the flag series
(2005-2013), in which traditional fabrics and objects are reworked as collages
that form various incarnations of the American and Iranian flag, exploring
ideas of national belonging, as well as the conflicting role of flags as
symbols of ideological and nationalistic violence.
By contesting the division between the realm of memory and the
present state, she seduces the viewer into a world of ongoing equilibriums. Her
work references the avant-garde and the left-wing democratic movement as a form
of resistance against the logic of the capitalist system that we live in today.
It demonstrates how life extends beyond its own subjective limits and It
challenges the binaries we continually reconstruct between Self and Other,
between our own cannibal and civilized selves. Cultural memory, and ideological
symbols are remixed with a very direct, physical approach, deconstructing
personal history and historic momentum alike, crossing the borders of
imagination and the imagined, raw and honest. The material itself gets to
speak: there is no mediation or transition, but a direct dialogue, reflecting
on aspiration and tragedy, the battlefields of mankind and human nature itself.
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Waving Flag Examples:
SARA RAHBAR - ARTIST STATEMENT
In the end we are all just
visiting
and we all come to this
world alone and we leave alone.
But while we are here we
try so desperately to belong to something,
to someone and to
somewhere.
Metamorphosing and
transforming for the means of surviving it all,
our foundations lay, but
our houses have burned to the ground.
Building castles in the
sky, for a species that cannot fly, brick by limb we tear it down.
WHEN DONE... PUT COMPUTER TO SLEEP, PLUG BACK IN, COME SEE MICHAEL AND SHARE WITH HIM 1 THING YOU THOUGHT ABOUT THE SYMBOLISM AND 1 THING YOU THOUGT ABOUT THE COMPOSITION
WHEN DONE... PUT COMPUTER TO SLEEP, PLUG BACK IN, COME SEE MICHAEL AND SHARE WITH HIM 1 THING YOU THOUGHT ABOUT THE SYMBOLISM AND 1 THING YOU THOUGT ABOUT THE COMPOSITION
