Shervin/e Sheikh Rezaei شروین شیخ رضایی

As an architect, I used to observe reality in order to find a balance between logic and intuition. I attach great importance to the conceptual framework and always look for the essence. The rather rigid interplay of lines, which results from a grid or mathematical statistics, is expressed in my drawings and the preference for materiality and spatiality. These works meet the unexpected in an uneasy juxtaposing, often opening themselves to the movement, the organic matter and the themes of memory while balancing the self-confinement and sense of control. My attraction to things that are not so rigid and rational brought me from the notions of architecture into visual arts. I am fascinated by the sea, by the hidden life it harbours. The love life of the octopus (1965) by Jean Painlevé fed that admiration for nature and inspired me to work with seaweed in my previous works. Thanks to the organic shapes, it looks particularly elegant and repulsive at the same time. By integrating plants into the rigid structure of my work, based on architectural plans, I try to control the controllable, as it were. But I soon discovered that nature (outside and within) does not allow itself to be compartmentalized. My work is situated between emotion and ratio. Thus, I often start from the emotion that eventually turns into a written text that helps me to further investigate spatiality and the use of mixed media. Transparency, the juxtaposition between mechanical and human action, the exploration of the fluidity and invasiveness of nature in contrast to the controlled and impersonal language of machines/technology.

Virago, 2022
430 x 600 mm
3 layered silkscreen on cotton Gmund paper 240gr.
edition of 34 prints
€240 (vat/btw incl.) / for students: €180

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Artist book: I HAVE BEEN LIVING ALL MY LIFE DREAMING …
2023, January
38 pages
Black and white
Steilheid recycled n°2
Graphic design by Septian Priyatna
Pictures by Lars Duchateau
Text written by Shervin/e Sheikh Rezaei, Els Roelandt and Weronika Zalewska
€20

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Artist book: ART MEDIATION PROCESS
2021, August
15 pages
Edition of 48 pieces
Collagework inside
Scans inside
Text written by Inge Braeckman
Graphic design by Shervin/e Sheikh Rezaei
€25

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ENSEMBLE: drawing analyse
209 x 405 mm
silkscreenprint
edition of 25 prints
€50/print

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ENSEMBLE: An Architecture of the Inbetween
2020, Art Paper Editions
Limited edition / (200 ed.)
book + small (36x58cm) silkscreen-print: €45 (27 ed.)
book + big (60,2x84cm) silkscreen-print: €70
24 x 33 cm, 136 p., ills b&w, paperback, English / Farsi
December 2020
Editing and design: 6’56”

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