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
Artist Statement
Devoid of pitiful moralizing 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: humorous,grotesque, satirical, bitter. With spontaneous violent fantasy, Haerizadeh applies layers of gesso and bonding, breaks down the apparent integrity of the image, drains away the reductive moral stance, absolves his found canvas of its account of truth
– in the Nietzschean sense unmasking all accounts of the truth in order to arrive closer to the truth. It is ruthless criticism in the spirit of creative play.
Vali Mahlouji ‘Fictionville: A Place Beyond Good and Evil Reflections on Violence and the Society of Spectacle’
April 2011
This project was part of Sharjah Biennial 10
Artwork Images
Cursed into Slum, from Fictionville series
Rokni Haerizadeh
2010
Mixed media on paper
29.7 x 21 cm
Sharjah Art Foundation Collection
Act Like You Talk, from Fictionville series
Rokni Haerizadeh
2010
Mixed media on paper
29.7 x 21 cm
Sharjah Art Foundation Collection
Fictionville
Rokni Haerizadeh
2010
10 series of 9 multi-media paintings
Mixed media on paper
29.7 x 42 cm each
Installation view
Sharjah Art Foundation Collection
Photo by Alfredo Rubio
