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Haleh redjaian
About the Artist
Haleh Redjaian (b. 1971, Frankfurt, Germany) is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in Berlin. She read art history at Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, in 1994, going on to study fine arts at the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerp from 1998 to 1999. Her work has been exhibited internationally in both solo and group exhibitions at venues including Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde, Dubai; Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; and Galerie Krobath, Vienna.
The artist’s practice spans drawings, textiles and installations. Working in the language of abstraction and geometry, she unites linear systems in hypnotic compositions. Her influences include traditional systems of order and Sufi art and architecture: she imbues her works with her knowledge of this decorative heritage and draws attention to irregularities in pattern.
Redjaian’s oeuvre includes major works created with white kilim rugs. The artist commissions a small family-run business in Sirjan, Iran, to make these handwoven textiles for her which serve as blank canvases. She then proceeds to paint, print and sew onto them, creating a relationship between artisan traditions and her own artistic practices. Her work thus threads together the Middle East’s history of ornamentation with the aesthetics of Western geometric abstraction.
Haleh Redjaian. Courtesy the artist and Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde.
WORKS IN THE COLLECTION
Haleh Redjaian, "Osculation", 2019
Goldleaf, colour pencil, pencil, acrylic, watercolour on paper
25 × 25 cm
Courtesy the artist and Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde
Osculation (2019) is a prime example of the artist’s engagement with pattern, colour and symbolism. The neatly arranged yet broken circles give the impression of symmetry while manifesting their own unique arrangement. The image fades, is obscured, or comes freshly back into view. Redjaian challenges preconceptions of form and perfection, with the fragments simultaneously in dialogue and evading one another.
Haleh Redjaian, "Notes for Daydreaming (21)", 2020
Acrylic, ink and gold leaf on paper, 20 × 20 m
Courtesy the artist and Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde
Notes for Daydreaming 21 and 31 (2020) are part of a meditative series of works on paper where Redjaian experiments with shapes, colour and pattern. The line itself is the subject of each work, composing an intricate, orderly geometric formation. Imperfections in the grids question the rules and codifications within which we exist, inviting the audience to find their own space in this proposed scheme.
Haleh Redjaian, "Notes for Daydreaming (31)", 2020
Acrylic, ink and gold leaf on paper, 20 × 20 m
Courtesy the artist and Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde