Edition 2010
Solmaz Shahbazi
Born in 1971 in Tehran. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Solmaz Shahbazi studied architecture and design at the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Stuttgart. Before she began to engage in film, she had mainly been working as an architect. Her work builds on the artist’s desire to anchor an aesthetic dialetic praxis in the social and political conditions of the present. Shahbazi uses the documentary format in both her videos and her photography as a tool to analyse different modes of imagery, expectations of the unknown and possible effects on perception. Her collection of images testify to the potentially fictitious nature of the photographic medium, providing a view as to how we filter images, formulate conceptions—and ultimately awakening us to the fallibility of preconception, the power of the photographic frame. She is a nominee for the Discovery Award at the Rencontres d’Arles 2010. In addition to the 7th Sharjah Biennial, the 9th International Istanbul Biennial in 2005 and 1st Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Shahbazi’s work has been exhibited widely in Europe, the United States and the Middle East since 2001.
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