Exhibition presented as part of London Craft Week 2023.
About the artists
Bibi Manavi produces renderings of cellular patterns. Compositions are then enlarged, recreated in mirror then carved into wood using traditional Iranian craft techniques specializing in mirror and woodwork. In addition, she presents a linear narrative of the evolution of one of the most intricate embroidered patterns in the world from Baluchistan.
Rana Khadem mixed media piece with embroideries is inspired by the seafood-heavy diet of the people of the Persian Gulf, unsustainable because of the presence of heavy mercury in fish. She discovered the Golabatoun embroidery technique whose central practice is in the island of Hormozgan and used for centuries to decorate clothing and various objects.
In Sigillum, Navid Azimi Sajadi creates a body of the work which consists of a group of glazed sgraffito stoneware ceramics together making up a constellation-like installation. In this imaginary journey, elements of the esotericism of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern culture merge and consolidate, showing a contrast and, at the same time, a harmonic fusion.
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