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Below, check out two new prints by artists Fatemeh Kazemi and Eve Sussman.
This print has been designed to be part of an installation where the central component of Kazemi’s book Despair and Die (2021), which constructs an intimate space for processing grief.
Fatemeh Kazemi
The Sea Of Sorrow Has No SHORE, 2022
11″ x 14″ (paper)
Digital painting
Signed edition of 10 + 2 AP
Courtesy of the Artist in collaboration with Alireza Asadi
The visual instruction in this print shows an individual grief circle with a sense of irony. This installation builds on my practice exploring the aesthetics of everyday life found in trivial and marginalized spaces and expressions.
Fatemeh Kazemi فاطمه کاظمی (b. 1992, Tehran) is a Syracuse-Based artist and Co-Founder of ROSVAÂ Magazine, pursuing her practice in multidisciplinary arenas to merge her different interests in different projects. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Painting at the University of Tehran. Recently, she is studying for a Master of Fine Art in Studio Art at Syracuse University. Kazemi’s approach is focused on the process and context of creation, to spotlight the very period during which the work was built. She employs an amalgamation of media such as video, installation, writing, and performance that serve as research into themes of ritual, subculture, and archival memory. She uses a multitude of sources as a starting point, from theoretical text to a new word or memory, to weave together.
doubletrouble is from Eve Sussman’s series RGBCMYK, a project of unique woodblock mono-print-collages that combines her experience working with electronic media with her early practice as a printmaker.
Eve Sussman, doubletrouble, 2022
11″ x 14″ (paper)
Woodblock, collage
Signed edition of 10 + 2 AP
Courtesy of the Artist
RGBCMYK grew out of an interest in trying to render, in a completely non-electronic, analog manner, the electronic signals and digital information that are the foundation of television, video projected light and commercial print reproduction. In this old medium, using primary graphic elements, I discover monoprints that result in uncanny color combinations, recall electronic dissonance of TV test patterns, RGB misalignments, 3D offset prints and tech schematics gone wrong. Part of the inspiration for RGBCMYK is taken from 1950-60s television repair manuals.
Eve Sussman works primarily in film, video, installation, and live performance. Working as a duo with Simon Lee their projects include live multi-screen theatrical events, (radioOradio in collaboration with Algis Kyzis), channeled telephone performances (All the reporters laughed and took pictures) and film installations (No food No money No jewels and Car Wash Incident). They are recipients of the 2022 Hewlett50 Commission in Media Arts for their latest project Naming Names to be produced between Athens, Greece, and San Francisco, CA with collaborator Volkmar Klien. Other recent solo and collaborative endeavors include: the “channeled” dance pieceMadison Color Theory, an experiment in the performance of geometric minimalism using live dance calling; Sudoku Sessions a remote improvisation created for lockdown; and returning to printmaking after a 30-year hiatus. Recently Eve also started making flags.
Eve’s solo and collaborative work has been supported by Creative Capital, Cafe Royal Foundation, NYSCA, NYFA, Guggenheim Foundation, among others. She has shown in institutions and festivals internationally, including Reina Sofia in Madrid, Museum of Modern Art in New York, Whitney Museum in New York, Louisiana Museum in Denmark, National Gallery in London, Leeum Museum in Seoul, Korea, and Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal. Festivals include: BAM–Next Wave Festival, Sundance, Toronto International Film Festival, Berlinale, and Los Encuentros de Pamplona 72-22, in Spain. Her video, 89 seconds at Alcázar, is in the collection of the MoMA and the Whitney Museum. Her live-editing, algorithmic movie whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir is in the Smithsonian American Art Museum