poetic mysteries
ed. art proudly presents new works by the internationally active Iranian-German artist Raha Rastifard, who now lives in Sweden. Her work ranges from photography to video, drawing, installations and printmaking. It always stems from her personal experiences, and is largely autobiographical. But through the use of universal symbols from her birth country, such as calligraphy and Sufi costumes, she opens up the reading of the works to a general level.
In her highly lyrical art, she creates works full of transcultural, poetic and historical art references. The process often resembles diaries where reality, dreams and fantasies intertwine.
On ed-art.se, several new series of prints are presented, all produced at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, where Rastifard right now studying a further education in printing techniques.
Detail from "Untitled (green), etching, 2015
“A Story Written With Water” consists of a number of poetic texts in which the present, past and future intersect. The process resembles diaries where reality, dreams and fantasies intertwine. The handwritten Persian texts are arranged in random patterns.
Detail from "A Story Written With Water (yellow)", serigraph, 2015
In the series "The Truth has Aesthetics" Raha Rastifard has created new patterns inspired by ancient Persian geometrical patterns, which are shown as architectural space.
Detail from "The Truth has Aesthetics (black/gold)", serigraph, 2015
Raha Rastifard has a Bachelor of Fine art from the National University of Art in Tehran and a Master’s degree in European and Islamic Art History and Iranian Studies from the Freie Universität in Berlin. She has exhibited around Europe and in Iran, but also, among others, in the US, Japan and China. She was a 2009 finalist for the Freedom to Create Prize, which is awarded to artists who strive for freedom to create in places where such a freedom does not exist. In 2015 she had a solo show at the world famous Pergamon Museum in Berlin.
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