Booth: S26
At Art Statements 2012, Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde is pleased to present a solo project by Rokni Haerizadeh with a selection of works from his ongoing 'Fictionville' series alongside his video animation 'Just What is it That Makes Today's Homes so Different, so Appealing?'
Devoid of pitiful moralizing and surpassing fetishistic infatuation, Haerizadeh's works on paper and video animation controversially pervert found photographic media images. Scenes of tragedy, brutality and suffering are transformed into an anthropomorphic Orwellian world; humourous, grotesque and bitter. In the animation 'Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?' Haerizadeh creates the narrative frame by frame, generating a moving painting in which the stills of CNN and YouTube news broadcasts about the unrest in Iran in June 2009 are deviated into a voyage through a bestial spectacle.