Fatemeh Takhtkeshian
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www.takhtkeshian.wordpress.com
www.takhtkeshian.wordpress.com
Fatemeh is originally from Iran. She holds a BA and a MA in Painting and
is currently a PhD candidate in Art at LICA (Lancaster Institute for the
Contemporary Arts), Lancaster University. Her practice combines drawing,
collage and video to articulate her identity and perceptions as an Iranian woman.
Her current project includes drawing into re-cycled second-hand books. These
texts, filled as they are with their previous owners’ dreams and ideas, are overlaid
with her dreams, nightmares and life experiences. She aims to show their real
faces and how they describe their identity, reflecting on them with the mirror of
her own artworks.
In the larger paintings old photos, symbols and traditional motifs are combined
to make layered portraits of identity. The pieces in this series complete each
other, like different sides of the same form. The faces, depicted in different
situations, manifest the truth behind her portraits, trying to hide behind forms
and colours. However, hiding it seems to be impossible, even by omitting the
portrait and substituting it with an empty shape.
Images and visual elements are woven together. Sketch books combine with films
and pictures recorded in Iran and Britain, these images, elements, pictures and
films lay over each other as semi-transparent layers. They, collectively, perform a
circle: they walk and flow inside or outside of one another, cover or uncover and
appear or disappear within each other. They are a mixture of different themes,
dreams and imaginary places and states which have elements of secrecy and
disclosure. This series of works evoke the conflict among the different layers of
her identity.
is currently a PhD candidate in Art at LICA (Lancaster Institute for the
Contemporary Arts), Lancaster University. Her practice combines drawing,
collage and video to articulate her identity and perceptions as an Iranian woman.
Her current project includes drawing into re-cycled second-hand books. These
texts, filled as they are with their previous owners’ dreams and ideas, are overlaid
with her dreams, nightmares and life experiences. She aims to show their real
faces and how they describe their identity, reflecting on them with the mirror of
her own artworks.
In the larger paintings old photos, symbols and traditional motifs are combined
to make layered portraits of identity. The pieces in this series complete each
other, like different sides of the same form. The faces, depicted in different
situations, manifest the truth behind her portraits, trying to hide behind forms
and colours. However, hiding it seems to be impossible, even by omitting the
portrait and substituting it with an empty shape.
Images and visual elements are woven together. Sketch books combine with films
and pictures recorded in Iran and Britain, these images, elements, pictures and
films lay over each other as semi-transparent layers. They, collectively, perform a
circle: they walk and flow inside or outside of one another, cover or uncover and
appear or disappear within each other. They are a mixture of different themes,
dreams and imaginary places and states which have elements of secrecy and
disclosure. This series of works evoke the conflict among the different layers of
her identity.