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Shirana Shahbazi
First Things First

KINDL Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin, Germany, 2 April - 26 August 2017

Shirana Shahbazi: First Things First

KINDL Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin, Germany

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Installation view, Shirana Shahbazi: First Things First, KINDL - Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany, 2017, Photo: Jens Ziehe
Installation view, Shirana Shahbazi: First Things First, KINDL - Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany, 2017, Photo: Jens Ziehe

The exhibition shows a representative selection of photographs from very different series that were created in the past ten years. With some thirty-five works, it distils this spectrum into a visual cosmos of pictures that develops beyond categories such as stylistic similarity and logical temporal sequences.

The exhibition First Things First emphasises an equal juxtaposition, a dynamic and free arrangement of various subjects and styles: unspectacular landscapes alongside precisely staged fruit and flower still lifes, seemingly casual urban scenes alongside geometric, abstract compositions in deliberately chosen colour.
 
With her pictures, Shirana Shahbazi takes up the visual spectrum of the present and transforms it into a semantic complexity that cannot be achieved through classifications and formal categories. These pictures insist on a necessary openness that is demanded unconditionally and seeks out and withstands the pluralist, equal juxtaposition. This basic openness is underscored by the specifically chosen exhibition architecture in the Power House M2 at the KINDL, which allows neither for a prescribed route through the exhibition nor for intended viewing angles.

Curator: Andreas Fiedler
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  • Installation view, Shirana Shahbazi: First Things First, KINDL - Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany, 2017, Photo: Jens Ziehe
  • Installation view, Shirana Shahbazi: First Things First, KINDL - Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany, 2017, Photo: Jens Ziehe
  • Installation view, Shirana Shahbazi: First Things First, KINDL - Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany, 2017, Photo: Jens Ziehe
  • Installation view, Shirana Shahbazi: First Things First, KINDL - Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany, 2017, Photo: Jens Ziehe
Installation view, Shirana Shahbazi: First Things First, KINDL - Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany, 2017, Photo: Jens Ziehe
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  • Shirana Shahbazi

    Shirana Shahbazi

    First Things First, 2017 Texts by Jens Asthoff, Andreas Fiedler

    Edited by Andreas Fiedler

    KINDL- Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin

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