Press Release
Storytelling and the use of photography have equal value in most of Aisa Rashid’s projects. She takes the frozen and suspended quality of the photographs and turns them into objects and stories. The realism of photographic images along with their unnatural ability to suspend the unceasing march of time into moments of frozen details is what Aisa Rashid is fascinated about. The collection on display, more than anything, is a tribute to nature and the truth by providing beautiful examples of how our brains trick us and how photographic images are deployed and therefore exhausted versions of the truth: cropped sculptures of mountains, projected clouds passing on a landscape and ice-cold drawings based on found images. The vision of a lens is fixed, whereas the human eye is constantly changing its focus, from left to right, from near to far, a constant change of perspective. Photography is rather a mode of storytelling that incorporates ideas of truth, reality, and perception. In another part of the exhibition, the artist has asked fellow artist, Sepideh Zamani, to visualize a personal perception of one of Rashid’s base photographs. By taking a photograph, or painting a landscape, or making a sculpture, one could attempt to catch an instant of the truth, but that would merely provide an “impression” because capturing the truth is an illusion. The truth is there, whether we look at it or not.
Selected Works
