Star Machine - Farah al Qasimi textiles beyond its walls

beyond its walls

classmates

from April to November 2019 in the C834 in the Corbusierhaus in Berlin

kann das sich endlos fortpflanzende Echo einzig die Erfahrung des Lebens

presentation

Star Machine - Farah al Qasimi textiles beyond its wallsAl Qasimis photographs are filled with flowers but they are rarely real. Instead, they are represented metonymically as object, ornament, pattern, and image. In a series of flower studies, their natural forms are translated materially into a glinting crystal trinket, a perishable garnish carved from a tomato or carrot, and a sugary decoration piped in pink frosting. By capturing this material metamorphosis Al Qasimi amplifies the ways in which flowers