Cursed into Slum2, from Fictionville series, 2010
Rokni Haerizadeh
Cursed into Slum2, from Fictionville series, 2010
Mixed media on paper
29.7 x 21 cm
Sharjah Art Foundation Collection
Biography
Rokni Haerizadeh's oeuvre traverses various media including assemblage and performance-based work, in which he often collaborates with his brother Ramin. Rokni earned an MA from the University of Tehran and has held solo exhibitions in Dubai, Istanbul and Tehran. He participated in Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East, Saatchi Gallery, London (2009) and Be Crowned with Laurel in Oblivion, Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris (2010).
This person was part of Sharjah Biennial 10
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Fictionville
'Devoid of pitiful moralising and surpassing fetishistic infatuation with depictions of human sordidness, in the series Fictionville Rokni Haerizadeh cunningly (and controversially) violates and perverts found photographic media images depicting human suffering into an anthropomorphic Orwellian world of fairytales: humourous,grotesque, satirical, bitter.'
Sharjah Biennial 10: Plot for a Biennial
Accompanying and complementing the main premise of Sharjah Biennial 10, Plot for a Biennial explores the concept of a ‘conversation’ through printed matter.