About me:
SARA RAHBAR
Born 1976, in Tehran, Iran, is a contemporary artist living and working between Iran and America.
Sara Rahbar was born in Tehran in 1976, but both the revolution in Iran and the start of the Iran Iraq war caused her to flee her birthplace. This distance, this proximity is developed by the artist, based on memory, longing and inertia in inhabiting tensions of dual disjuncture. Rahbar studied in London and New York, and now spends most of her productive life between Tehran and New York. In this going back and forth, an apocalyptic memory has been revised in her reworking of traditional materials into proto-contemporary textiles and textures of national belonging.
Rahbar has been a teaching artist, an art director, a film Photographer and a Production coordinator for various films and documentaries. She has also been a freelance photographer in Iran for several years. Her work has been shown in galleries and museums worldwide and reviewed and praised in a multitude of prominent publications. Rahbar’s work has been featured on book covers, album covers and film festival posters. Her work has also been used for several educational programs such as; at The Queens Museum of Art Rahbar’s work was used for art therapy workshops for severely disabled children, as well as for Rikers Island Educational workshops. And the organization START, which uses art as a means to heal, educate and empower the younger generation in disadvantaged areas in the Middle East has also used Rahbar’s work in their various programs.
In one of her recent statements, she states, “Our foundations lay, but our houses have burned to the ground. Building castles in the sky, for a species that cannot fly, brick by limb we tear it down. Thinking that we are moving forwards, yet moving backwards all along. Gajar woman and golden toys, we wait for dawn.” Even within this contemporary evocation, across borders and palpitating with barbarism, her constant vigilance regarding the fallen past and an unrealized future remain the means of her economic reality and her imagination. The global neighborhood, she inhabits, where disenfranchisement through plight and flight are becoming important, offer fragments by which we understand the configurations of the US version of free trade and democracy.
ARIST STATEMENT
We left our woes behind, with only echoes of our previous lives remaining. Seeking continuation, time and refuge, human beings attempting to survive our selves, our lives, and our present locations.
My work is my story told, it is a direct reflection of the constant questioning of
the who I am, what and where is home, and why I am here. It is the mirror image of my life, my geographic locations, my history, my present, my environments and my memories.
Metamorphosing and transforming for the means of surviving it all, our foundations lay, but our houses have burned to the ground. Building castles in the sky, for a species that cannot fly, brick by limb we tear it down. Thinking that we are moving forwards, yet moving backwards all along.
Gajar woman and golden toys, we wait for dawn.
Myspace Codes
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Who I'd like to meet:
FLAGS
Textile/ mixed media
Flag#36,Tomorrow we will fall in love all over again, 94x55, 2008
Flag # 35, Vahed (the one) 71x47, 2008
you are safe here with me flag #14 13.5x8 feet 2008
Flag#34,God bless America,2008,71x47inch
flag #33,All that i saw resembled you, 116x57 2008
Flag#32,Did you see what love did to us once again,2008 73x47
flag#30,Between us and the breeze 64x34 2008
Flag #29,barriers of separation and distance 79x47 2008
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Flag #31,long live..and down with... 72x37 2008
flag #26,After you we lost our hue, 116x57 2008
flag#23,Remembering and forgetting you, over and over again, 64x34 2008
flag#20 62x35 2008
flag #19,Memories without Recollection,80x46 2008
Flag# 18,Those days are gone,59x33 2008
flag#15,with these eyes, 80x38 2008
Flag#12,Prayer Mat, 84x55 2008 textile shredded american and iranian flags
Flag #11 96x52 2008 keffiyeh print on american flag with embroidery
Flag#10 65x35 2008
Flag#9,Living underneath your blood filled skies,65x35 2007
Flag #8, American Democracy, 68x50 2007
Flag #7,CYCLES,58x38 2007
Flag #5, KURDISTAN, 65x35 2007
Flag # 4 , TIES,70x60 2006
Flag #3 65x35 2006-2008
Flag#1 65x35 2006-2008
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