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YARAT announces new exhibitions

19 February 2016 14:54 (UTC+04:00)
YARAT announces new exhibitions

By Amina Nazarli

YARAT Contemporary Art Space will host a series of exhibitions that were selected through ARTIM project open call from February 19 to March 13.

The first exhibition to inaugurate the programme is Habib Saher’s solo show 'This Too Shall Pass'.

The show 'This Too Shall Pass' draws its inspiration from various disciplines including the practice of sand mandala and Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam to muse on ephemerality of existence, inevitability of death and the beauty of that short period called life.

The artist approaches sculpture as a metaphor for anything corporeal and presents a body of work that will auto-destruct in the course of the exhibition. Much in the vein of Auto-Destructive art of the 1960s, the artist aims at challenging the notion of art as a commodity and wants to emphasize its spiritual and philosophical capacity.

The exhibition will be accompanied with a series of events that includes a conversation with the artist, a film screening and a poetry reading evening all held at the ARTIM Space, YARAT announced.

Habib Saher (b.1986) is a Baku-based artist of Iranian descendant. He has obtained his bachelors and masters degrees in Sculpture from the Academy of Arts in Baku. Saher has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Baku and intenationally including Semeni International Art Exhibiton – Heydar Aliyev Center, Caspian Art Exhibition, Zavod contemporary Art Exhibition and Summer Group Show at the Seed Corn gallery, Berkeley, CA.

YARAT’s program ARTIM, meaning ‘progress’ in Azerbaijani supports young practitioners in the arts providing opportunities to curate and feature their work in exhibitions.

YARAT is a non-profit art organisation based in Baku, Azerbaijan. Founded by Aida Mahmudova and a group of artists in 2011, YARAT is dedicated to nurturing an understanding of contemporary art in Azerbaijan and to creating a platform for Azerbaijani art, both nationally and internationally.

YARAT, which means ‘create’ in Azerbaijani has commissioned over 145 projects to date, the majority of which have been in the capital. Education is at the heart of YARAT’s work: they hold artist residencies, workshops, lectures and screenings. In 2014, there was launched a summer school and a new building housing artists’ studios and spaces to support their residency programme. In 2015, YARAT Contemporary Art Centre– their first permanent exhibition space appeared in Baku.

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