Shahram Entekhabi

Shahram Entekhabi ( born January 22, 1963 in Borujerd, Iran) is a German -Iranian artist with a focus on video art, photography, painting, installations, performance art, live art and performances.

Life

In 1976 he began his studies at the Department of Graphic Design at the University of Tehran. 1979-82 he studied architecture, urban planning and Italian in Perugia and Reggio Calabria in Italy. In 1983 he moved to Berlin ( West) and worked there until 2000 as a freelance architect. Since the mid- 1990s, he worked increasingly with issues of visual culture and art, before he worked exclusively as a visual artist since 2001. Since that time he has participated in numerous international exhibitions and projects. From 2003 to 2005 he collaborated with the Dutch scholar of literature, culture and art historian Mieke Bal on issues of migration and post- migration as an expression of an aesthetics of the everyday. In 2004 he was a visiting fellow at the Baker -Nord Center for the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland / Ohio (USA). In 2006 he received the VASL scholarship in Lahore, Pakistan.

Art

The artistic work of Shahram Entekhabi refers to the rules of urban space and is inspired by the concept of the " flaneur " from the writings of Charles Baudelaire. He considered the public space as a hierarchy, and dominated by activities of the white, heterosexual male from the middle class. In his performances, architectural interventions and video works, he tried to develop alternatives to this practice.

In the video "i? " 2004 first appeared the figure of the so-called "migrants", which was from then on to be a major factor in his artistic work. The figure, which still embodies Entekhabi self, wearing a cheap suit, buttoned up to his neck shirt and cheap, unfashionable shoes. In a conscious gesture Entekhabi adapted so that certain attributes that identifies the figure as RELATED to the group of so-called guest workers as they were recruited in West Germany since the economic miracle of the 1950s. This Entekhabi oversubscribed the figure sometimes slapstick by freezes his face in an expressive poor statics, uses a special make-up and also his gear to the to the " flood" up drawn trousers to create a comic awkwardness that, to film characters of the 1920s such as Buster Keaton, recalls. This Entekhabi draws a line in the past, where it can be operated simultaneously in the figure absolutely contemporary and current situations. In a sense, it thus puts into question the extent to which the image of the guest worker in Western society has changed at all, or is it not rather subjected to extreme static. In allowing themselves embody this character, he addressed, who has over 20 years living in Berlin as an Iranian citizen, the complex and dichotomous relationship between social perception and self-perception, the question of seeing and being seen.

In later work ( " Miguel ", " Mladen ", " Mehmet ", " Islamic Star" (all 2006) ), Entekhabi has the figure of migrants - as in a multiple personality disorder - split and in a radicalization of its initial strategy, new versions of the figure developed. It always depends on him doing clichéd ideas about migrants, on us hold a mirror, and the negative images of chauvinism, terrorism and crime, - many trained in Western societies over male migrants - particularly since the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 were to discard.

He is also committed since 2001 also reinforced by the cultural practice in his native Iran apart. It covers in fashion magazines, advertising brochures and on reproductions of Persian miniatures, modern posters and postcards all female figures with a veil. With the painting over of female figures with the chador, it refers to the Iranian legislation that requires women full body veil, and the censorship of images of women in books and magazines in the time of the Islamic revolution.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2011 Nothing gold to Stay, Other Gallery, Beijing, China
  • 2010 Road Movies, The Cogut Center for the Humanities, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
  • 2007 santralistanbul, Istanbul - Turkey
  • 2006 Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt am Main
  • 2004 Case Gallery, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland
  • 2004 National Center for Contemporary Art / NCCA, Moscow

Literature (selection )

  • Iran Inside Out - Influences of Homeland and Diaspora on the Artistic Language of Contemporary Iranian, Chelsea Art Museum, 2009 ISBN 0982397712 ISBN 978-0982397718
  • One person 's trash is another person 's Treasure The book by Shahram Entekhabi from " the book by" series of Fine Arts Unternehmen Books AG. 2008 ISBN 3-03720-010-3
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