Interview with ghazel, Mea Culpa Exhibition Catalogue, Carbon 12 Gallery, 14 March -14 May, 2014, Dubai (original) (raw)

Ghazel is back at Dubai's Carbon 12 from March 14th to May 1st, 2016 and so is her tongue in cheek, vehemently insightful work, commenting on the state of the world and pushing the boundaries of art. The solo exhibition Mea Culpa revolves around the map motif used in diverse, sometimes derisive, ways. In addition to the works on paper and video, the Iranian artist is -for the first time in almost twenty years -showing sculptures. Made of paper, aluminium and copper, they relate thematically to the map-based work begun in 2010. Ghazel purposefully crafts seemingly spontaneous and lighthearted works whose humor, simple iconography and sometimes material fragility only partially obfuscate their timely, trenchant vision and the urgency of their political message.