REFACTOR / NIKZAD ARABSHAHI

Opening
8 December 2016
Closing
15 December 2016
Hours of work
16 تا 21

This project blends two mediums together, sound and visual so that these two play with each other. The visual part is the result of an artistic pursuit and painterly experience that has transformed painter’s mindset. This project is portraying this new mindset. That is why we name it “Refactor”. The core of this project is a computer program based on evaluating, reviewing, reflecting and reinterpreting painter’s practice of art making. The outcome of this self-reflection is turned into compositional algorithms that can be formulated mathematically, so that their sequential outcome forms a dynamic network of computer codes. These computer codes are making possible painterly experience without the painter, a painting factory without any need for painter’s presence or control. These computer codes recreate the process of image making and control the painterly quality of this realization on a dedicated visual platform. The visual platform “Refactor” is an interwoven spatial-visual-aural sculpture that redefines space through an arrangement of generated recurring images and sounds; images that go beyond conventional static white walls of a gallery and travel through these platforms. Images passing through layers of semi-transparent semi-reflecting metallic net are multiplied in space. Visual images are immersed in the soundscape and sound are emerged from visual images. Painting becomes sound and fades away from our sight like sound.

Meet the artist of this exhibition

Nikzad Arabshahi

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