Arash Fakhim

Sissyphus
2016
Mixed Media
90 x 60
Wallid
2016
Ceramics,wood, foam, Polyurethane foam
200 x 150
Close up : Waves loops & Fragments/ Holes 'n Fillers, Butterflies & caterpillars
2016
Mixed Media
160 x 90

The surface, the subject, the object, the thing & the actor all swirl down in a looped sink. A drainage of a visual soup.

In my artistic practice I take interest in the fading divisions between the topics mentioned above. When you grab an object or a material, in order to use or to create, it seems to be submissive to its user. For example, to pin a nail into a wall you have to functionalize a hammer. At first glance, the hammer seems to be submissive, but to use this object one must first grab the hammer and so the actor changes its posture already. The object forces his actor to adopt a certain choreography. In this momentum the oppressor and the oppressed seem to exchange and share equal power over one another. The lines between the object & the subject now blur. This similar kind of friction of blurring boundaries is what I try to capture, visualize and ultimately materialize into a form of work, whether it is a painting, a sculpture or, maybe even better, something in between… 

The videos are a literal translation of this relationship between man and object captured in a work. I have attempted to come to a better understanding of the factors that contribute to the fading divisions between the two. I did this by simulating the objects and thus providing a language to express their wishes and desires as static creatures in their natural habitat. A personification of objects and their needs on display.

www.arashfakhim.com
Sissyphus
2016
Mixed Media
90 x 60
Wallid
2016
Ceramics,wood, foam, Polyurethane foam
200 x 150
Close up : Waves loops & Fragments/ Holes 'n Fillers, Butterflies & caterpillars
2016
Mixed Media
160 x 90