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presentation of the iranian guest artist samieh shahcheraghi

during the groot rotterdams atelier weekend – on saturday 16 and sunday 17 september 2023 – stage ocw presented work of the iranian artist samieh shahcheraghi. _samieh was a guest in the ocw studio space in the month of august. _she concluded her work period with a presentation during graw

 

crimmp_40_graw, samieh shahcheraghi, groot rotterdams atelier weekend, arnold schalks, ocw, podium voor kleinschaligheden, rotterdam

 

for her visual work, samieh uses specific qualities of drawing such as lines, dots and the contrast between light and dark. _in addition, she applies a wide range of treatments to her material by scratching, crumpling, piercing, tearing, reassembling torn parts with a needle and thread, and varying the pen pressure while drawing. _the drawings form an intermediate station for samieh. _they provide her with the vocabulary, which she can then convert into an idiom for wider application in her poetry, music, film and performance

 

crimmp_40_graw, samieh shahcheraghi, groot rotterdams atelier weekend, arnold schalks, ocw, podium voor kleinschaligheden, rotterdam

page from one of samieh's sketchbook

 

on saturday 16 and sunday 17 september, samieh not only exhibited her sketchbooks in the studio building at the drievriendenstraat. _on both days she also presented a twenty-minute live performance at 13 and 16 hrs, in which she read poetry in persian while drawing, to present the drawing as a voice of the words. _she prepared the zines* of translation of her poetry. _besides, she presented an interactive drawing-poetry performance together with the audience and her cello

* download the zine here as a pdf-file (2,8 mb)

 

crimmp_40_graw, samieh shahcheraghi, groot rotterdams atelier weekend, arnold schalks, ocw, podium voor kleinschaligheden, rotterdam

 

crimmp_40_graw, samieh shahcheraghi, groot rotterdams atelier weekend, arnold schalks, ocw, podium voor kleinschaligheden, rotterdam

 

 

samiehshahcheraghi.com

date crimmp_40_graw: 16 and 17 september 2023

221 visitors attended the presentation

click here to download the PRINTVERSION pre-programme as a pdf-file (472 kb)