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Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian
바다에서 여명까지 From Sea to Dawn | 2016–17 | 6’26”
Courtesy of the artists and Han Nefkens Foundation
Courtesy of the artists and Han Nefkens Foundation
Synopsis
In From Sea to Dawn, Haerizadeh, Haerizadeh, and Rahmanian develop what they call “fluid paintings”; Stills drawn from media circulation are printed on A4 paper, then repeatedly painted over, erased, and reworked before being reassembled as moving image. Rather than preserving the image, this process subjects it to continuous transformation, undoing its stability and its claim to representation. While the work draws on images of migration from West Asia and North Africa toward Europe, it does not fix these trajectories into narrative form. Instead, figures flicker in and out of legibility, faces are obscured or displaced, and the image resists recognition. In this sense, the work engages strategies of estrangement associated with Bertolt Brecht, not to distance the viewer from the image, but to interrupt the conditions under which it becomes legible. Through repetition and reconfiguration, the work foregrounds the instability of images in circulation—where meaning is not secured but continually eroded, displaced, and re-formed. What emerges is not a documentary account of crisis, but an image under pressure, shaped by processes of accumulation, interference, and transformation.
About the artist
Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, and Hesam Rahmanian are an Abu Dhabi–based artist collective who have lived and worked together as a shared project since 2009. Treating production as performance, they develop collaboration as a collective method that moves between art, politics, and everyday life. Their home functions as studio, film set, theatre, museum, and research space—an evolving ecology where aesthetic construction and undoing, seriousness and humor, generosity and eccentricity coexist. Their work has been shown internationally, including at Seoul Museum of Art, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, MACBA, Kunsthalle Zürich, ICA Boston, and OGR Torino.