De Winkelhaak
Contents About FRESH AIR JURY TEAM PARTNERS coStA Azad Art Gallery ARTISTS Rozita Sharaf Jahan Wilfried Vandenhove Sara Roohi Sefet Martine Laquiere Majid Koorang Beheshti Salwa Jabli Babak Kazemi Masoumeh Bakhtiary Andreas Hetfeld Atefeh Samai Jahed Sarboland Nazanin Djavaheri Taha Heydari Avin Kaki Afshin Chizari
EXHIBITION
2012
THEME Fresh Air is not about politics, but wants to try to have peaceful world, for a better understanding of social relations and that social pressures, of some country’s like, from the middle east ( Iran, Egypt, Libby, Turkey, Afghanistan, Iraq ) China, North Korea, Cuba and African countries to other country`s, that people have difference Definition as, explanation of freedom, relative democracy, economy in social life, religious, sexual repression and homosexuality, ideology and … Fresh Air hopes that, creative artists with their perspicacity eyes can make bridges and understand relations between 2 cultures, for better understanding each other in friendly cohabitation life .
LOCATION Fresh Air was held from 18 February until 3 March
2012
in De Winkelhaak (Design Centrum) Antwerpen, Belgium . www.winkelhaak.be
JURY 2012 Peter Verbrugge Stijn Gisquiere Nazanin Javaheri
The team NAZANIN JAVAHERI Curator – director of Fresh Air info@freshair-artculture.com PETER VERBRUGGEN Artist, Adviser of projects peter@freshair-artculture.com INE BEERTEN Graphic designer ine@freshair-artculture.com PATRIK FAGARD Photographer/Interactive Designer patrik@freshair-artculture.com TAMAR RAMISHVILI Photographer/Graphic designer tamar@freshair-artculture.com
Rozita Sharaf JAhan
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Fire Lader 2005 Video Art Criticism of social pressure for women in Iran
HD - Time 7:23 IT DEPRIVED ME OF THE SONG 2010 Video Art That is about Censorship after Iranian revolutie from 1978 until now .
HD - Time 9:18
Wilfried Vandenhove
¨ Life is Not a Miracle¨ is a series photo`s about the street children in Mexico City where wilfried began to work in .
Untitled 2005
600 Polaroid Archival Pigment Print on Paper Wooden frame Image Size: 136 x 132 cm Framed: 162 x 158 cm
Untitled
2004
Archival Pigment Print on Paper Wooden frame Each Image Individually Framed Image Size: 144 x 52.5 cm Framed: 162 x 70 cm
Rozita
2003
600 Polaroid Archival Pigment Print on Paper Wooden frame Image Size: 136 x132 cm Framed: 162 x 158 cm
Sara Roohi Sefet
Female turban Installation
2009
After election in iran ( ) everywhere was photo`s of Clergymen or Iranian political. That made a question for artist that, what happening if women have turban ?
Martine Laquiere
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Beyrouth 2011 Photo
Maertine accidentally found silk scarfs, that detaild maps of regions in the middle east were printed on both sides . These ¨silk Escapes¨were printed on silk fabric between 1944 and 1952 in Great Britain and the United States. They were worn by british paratroops who were dropped in the respective zones in war .
Basra 2011 Photo
Majid Koorang Beheshti
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Symbolic 2010 Photo
Salwa Jabli
There are two prime motivators for those works. Explicit shocking events such as rape, abuse, torture, intimidation & violence are reected, as well as current social and political issues aggravate my anger and make me feel helpless and prompt me to ask questions .
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Different techniques Size : 330 x 217 cm
Maratenia 2009 Photo
2005
Babak Kazemi 1983
Sir YES Sir Photo Green Women Photo Traditional, religious mourning ceremony for Imam Hussein.
Compulsory soldiering to prepare . for war
Masoumeh Bakhtiary
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Untitled 2010 Installation Sexuality in religious and traditional situation .
Andreas Hetfeld 5
Nest 2005 Installation for public place The basic construction of the willow-nest in the ground anchors. The growing green Nest, after its completion by the community and adopted since then cared. The organic structure has two arched entrances to the east and the west.
Atefeh Samai
Uniforms of Veil and forced from gils schools to society, from this compulsion they try to show up their personality .
levels of literacy 2010 Photo
Jahed Sarboland
With a sort of stubbornness the father refused to take off his servant's uniform even at home, and while his sleeping gown hung unused on the coat hook, the father dozed completely dressed in his place, as if he was always ready for his responsibility and even here was waiting for the voice of his superior. As a result, in spite of all the care of the mother and sister, his uniform, which even at the start ,was not new, grew dirty Metamorphosis-Franz Kafka
Every men of ¨T¨ 2010 Painting
Nazanin Djavaheri
That is a symbolic view of artist as woman in religions saturations. A woman line on the bed but buried between canvas in depths of a HOZ ( in Iranian traditional architecture, any home had garden and any garden had a place to put a water and goldďŹ shes in as good atmosphere - for artist is symbol of traditional ). A brooked wing show true role of woman as human and equal to man. ( that some things religion don`t belief that )
Women in Religion 2012 Installation
Taha Heydari
Last night 2011 installation
Avin Kaki
That is about the nostalgy of artist about her motherland, ( Iraq ) that after years she created on the convas .
Untitled 2009 Painting