Faig Ahmed | Shangri La Artist-in-Residence

Textile artist, Faig Ahmed, discusses his residency and exhibition at Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design.
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Faig Ahmed was Shangri La artist-in-residence from January 12-22, 2019. An internationally-recognized artist from Baku, Azerbaijan, Ahmed is known for his conceptual works utilizing traditional craft reimagined as contemporary sculptural artworks. He explores fresh new visual forms that both examine and challenge tradition, through the use of iconic cultural objects.
Ahmed’s work engages viewers through its juxtaposition of tradition with hyper-contemporaneity, digitally distorting images through pixelation and three-dimensional shapes.
In January 2019, Ahmed installed several site-specific works created for Shangri La in the Textile Gallery. An exhibition of his work was also on view at Shangri La’s Arts of the Islamic World Gallery at the Honolulu Museum of Art.

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Faig! Thank you again and again!

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Love the work. They are almost optical illusions.

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Love her house! Ive been inside

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Who's house is this?

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BRAVO