QASP GROW 24
Grant Application : Support Material
Artist: Prita Tina Yeganeh
Project title: My Soil Farsh فرش (Carpet), 2024
Gallery: First Draft Solo Exhibition
Example 1 - Previous Work Portfolio
My Soil Farsh فرش is part 2 of a 3-part project:
Cultural objects loose their tethers and connections in the process of migration. They become dormant, ornamental from the Western gaze. But what happens when we re-active them for their intended use? What knowledge, tools and experiences are revealed to us that we are missing or yearning for ? How may they provide tools for healing, place-making, community-building and forming new ideas of home when re-activated in new landscapes ?
My Soil Farsh فرش (Carpet) expresses the profound experience of placemaking and community building through transforming and innovating a cultural object. In my preparation to translate this experience, I repurposed 45 kilograms of red loamy soil, hand-grinding and sieving the soil into a fine dust. The soil, once laid, was hand-imprinted with 3D-cut traditional Farsh فرش motifs.
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Artist: Prita Tina Yeganeh
Project title: Gireh, 2023
Gallery: Studio23 Residency Exhibition
Example 2 - Previous Work Portfolio
My Soil Farsh فرش is part 2 of a 3-part project:Cultural objects loose their tethers and connections in the process of migration. They become dormant, ornamental from the Western gaze. But what happens when we re-active them for their intended use? What knowledge, tools and experiences are revealed to us that we are missing or yearning for ? How may they provide tools for healing, place-making, community-building and forming new ideas of home when re-activated in new landscapes ?My Soil Farsh فرش (Carpet) expresses the profound experience of placemaking and community building through transforming and innovating a cultural object. In my preparation to translate this experience, I repurposed 45 kilograms of red loamy soil, hand-grinding and sieving the soil into a fine dust. The soil, once laid, was hand-imprinted with 3D-cut traditional Farsh فرش motifs.To view more of this work :
My Soil Farsh, 45kg of hand-ground soil, Install Image, 260 x 360cm, 2024
My Soil Farsh, 45kg of hand-ground soil, Install Image of imprinting soil with 3D printed motifs, 2024
Gireh, hand-cut Āyeneh-kāri (mirror glass) sculpture on wood, Install video clip 10 sec, 2oo x 200 cm, 2023
Gireh, hand-cut Āyeneh-kāri (mirror glass) sculpture on wood, Install Image, 200 x 200 cm, 2023
An exploration of sacred geometry and hidden visual language of forms in Persian Sufism. Specifically this residency explored the infinity of forms which begins with Gireh - the Sacred Knot. Gireh communicates the links between two planes of reality; the spiritual or metaphysical and physical.
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Artist: Prita Tina Yeganeh
Project title: The Sanctum of Qanat, 2023
Gallery: One Space Gallery, Brisbane
Selected : one of four, 'right'NOW 22 Series (Emerging practices of Queensland )
Example 3 - Previous Work Portfolio
Sanctum of Qanat, Installation View, Abri Silk printing, 2022
Sanctum of Qanat, Untitled 1, Abri Silk Prinitng, Detailed View, 137 x 170 cm, 2022
This work uses the Abri’, a 15th century Iranian paper printing technique I have expanded for silk and textiles.
This work explores Qanāt, an ancient living process for collecting and transporting underground hidden water, across the arid deserts of the Iranian plateau. Through Qanāt, my ancestors weaved themselves into the nature of the deserts using their intimate knowledge of landscape, geology and territory. I interpret Qanāt as more than an ancient living process. It offers me the history and origins of my own distant culture and reveals an Iranian identity deeply rooted in ancestral connections to land and place. The Sanctum of Qanāt explores the idea of Qanāt through textiles—my way of re-connecting to my displaced Iranian identity.
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