WAVING FLAGS PROJECT:
Step 1: Reading Sara Rahbar's bio
Step 2: Look through all of the Waving Flags she created... Pay attention to what she is representing in her different flags (symbology) and how she created each flag (composition)
Step 3: Read artist statement (on bottom of blog)
Step 4: Put computer to sleep, plug back in, come see Cori... Tell him 1 thing you though about the identity symbology and 1 thing about the composition (how she created the flags).
Step 1: Reading Sara Rahbar's bio
Step 2: Look through all of the Waving Flags she created... Pay attention to what she is representing in her different flags (symbology) and how she created each flag (composition)
Step 3: Read artist statement (on bottom of blog)
Step 4: Put computer to sleep, plug back in, come see Cori... Tell him 1 thing you though about the identity symbology and 1 thing about the composition (how she created the flags).
SARA RAHBAR - bio
Is a contemporary mixed media artist born in Tehran in 1976 and lives and works in New York
Rahbar pursued an interdisciplinary study program in New York and also studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art and design in London.
Her work ranges from photography to sculpture to installation and always stems from her personal experiences and is largely autobiographical. The first body of work that created international recognition for the artist was the flag series (2005-2013), in which traditional fabrics and objects are reworked as collages that form various incarnations of the American and Iranian flag, exploring ideas of national belonging, as well as the conflicting role of flags as symbols of ideological and nationalistic violence.
By contesting the division between the realm of memory and the present state, she seduces the viewer into a world of ongoing equilibriums. Her work references the avant-garde and the left-wing democratic movement as a form of resistance against the logic of the capitalist system that we live in today. It demonstrates how life extends beyond its own subjective limits and It challenges the binaries we continually reconstruct between Self and Other, between our own cannibal and civilized selves. Cultural memory, and ideological symbols are remixed with a very direct, physical approach, deconstructing personal history and historic momentum alike, crossing the borders of imagination and the imagined, raw and honest. The material itself gets to speak: there is no mediation or transition, but a direct dialogue, reflecting on aspiration and tragedy, the battlefields of mankind and human nature itself. –
Waving Flag Examples:
SARA RAHBAR - ARTIST STATEMENT
In the end we are all just visiting
and we all come to this world alone and we leave alone.
But while we are here we try so desperately to belong to something,
to someone and to somewhere.
Metamorphosing and transforming for the means of surviving it all,
our foundations lay, but our houses have burned to the ground.
Building castles in the sky, for a species that cannot fly, brick by limb we tear it down.
WHEN DONE... PUT COMPUTER TO SLEEP, PLUG BACK IN, COME SEE CORI AND SHARE WITH HER 1 THING YOU THOUGHT ABOUT THE SYMBOLISM AND 1 THING YOU THOUGT ABOUT THE COMPOSITION
WHEN DONE... PUT COMPUTER TO SLEEP, PLUG BACK IN, COME SEE CORI AND SHARE WITH HER 1 THING YOU THOUGHT ABOUT THE SYMBOLISM AND 1 THING YOU THOUGT ABOUT THE COMPOSITION
