Artist Talk with Marjan Baniasadi & Gabriel Tagle Petrone

7pm @hinterland (in English)

Marjan Baniasadi (Iran/Germany) and Gabriel Tagle Petrone (Mexico/Chile) will discuss not only their artworks but also their connection to “The Conference of the Birds”. Both their artistic comments - currently presented at hinterland - incorporate and use symbols or names of birds to convey their meaning.

Marjan Baniasadi (born 1993) is an Iranian contemporary visual artist currently living and working in Germany. She did her BFA at the National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan and holds a masters in Ceramic design from University of Pécs, Hungary. She is doing a Diploma at ADBK München and is a Fellow resident at VCCA Virginia, USA. For her, the traditional carpets of her homeland are not only every day objects or deorative commodities. Rather, they are mobile living objects capable of listening and recording the time. Patteh is the traditional embroidery technique, using sheeps wool in the Kerman region, Iran. In these traditional carpets, various bird motifs carry different meanings – representing omens of good or bad luck, happiness, joy and many more. The artist uses these motifs to make the present and past visible by incorporating myths, tales and fantasies of multiple times. Furthermore these rugs, tell simple and complex narratives of life and death, of pain and pleasure. Each individual carpet witnesses, conceals and then narrates a story of its own. Through the shades, patterns and textures of rugs, Marjan Baniasadi seeks to combine, connect and investigate their different forms of expression and transforms them into modes of her personal stories which in a way reflect the artist’s emotion and state of mind at a certain point during their creation - from then on they become untouchable interwoven memories of their own.

Gabriel Tagle Petrone was born in Mexico City in 1980 and lives in Santiago de Chile, Chile. He is a visual artist, teacher, visual researcher, also founding member and current director of the art gallery Arte-K 35 / Módulo de Experimentación, which he created in 2009 in Santiago de Chile. Many of his current artworks focus on sound, video, and installation - through which he reflects on the link between real bodies and their virtual existence on social networks. Also present is the constant entwinement of art and politics, as his works reflect national political problems. His sound installation De SURA(NO)RTE adresses the ancient Greek concept of struggle (Agon), a fundamental aspect of human experience. Furthermore, it creates an ambigous reading between the Hawker Hunter, the fighting jets that bombed the presidential palace La Moneda in Santiago de Chile in 1973, and the real bird of prey (hawk) as a common figure of freedom in many countries. The audiovisual piece contains the geolocatIon data of the Palacio de la Moneda and a piercing tinnitus sound mixed with the cries of hawks. Tagle´s aim is to showcast the forms of repression applied on the general population in times of dictatorship; linking tot he ominous feeling wich is induced by the projection from the ceiling on the floor below. The flight of fighting planes and helicopters at low altitudes was means to generate fear in the people, by constantly remembering the bombing of September 11, 1973.