Crumbling Desert Castle

Overview

An artist’s imagination, creativity, and transversely off- centre position leave behind a circumstantial trace that is linked to the artist’s own individual sphere of influence. This concentration is channelled into their poetic dialogue with the world and the society they live in and which lives through them.

The tragic nature of the shapes sought out and created by Marya Kazoun are the point of contact between her emotivity and the conditioning framework of external activities.

The contingent dark moments in history regularly lead us back towards the thorny issues of life: time and death. But the fine line crosses over with life, with all its inevitable beauty and all its inevitable cruelty.

This moment is the backdrop for Kazoun’s imaginative research into shapes in an oeuvre that seems to develop a questioning tension in the same way that human beings live and survive life. What might come across as a form of delirium is nothing other than love for the world, or sadness, or freedom from falseness. Kazoun acts with a broad strategy where she places the visible energy of what, every day, all over the world, our eyes refuse to see: to put the human being back in a central position.
Her work is a mirror in which we can see our own reflections. It may have a frightening soul, but Kazoun mends the rough edges to take care of us, to alleviate suffering and lead us back in the direction of thought.

Martina Cavallarin

A special thanks to Christian Minotto, for all his talent, perseverance and dedication and a special thanks to Andrea Busetto


This project was part of Sharjah Biennial 8.