Azadeh Gholizadeh
Gholizadeh’s work explores the intricate relationship between landscape and memory, delving into how absence, distance, desire, and longing influence our experiences. Employing traditional, women-centric fiber art techniques, Gholizadeh anchors her needlepoint tapestries and sculptural installations in themes of light, time, color, and memory that evoke nostalgia. The works utilize horizontal and vertical lines to form pixelated imagery, the artist reflecting on the concept of home and viewing it as fragile, inconsistent, and perspectival.
Inspired by contemporary views, her tapestries and installations evoke memories of her past life in Tehran. Natural elements like clouds, mountain peaks, and trees serve as sources of solace and refuge, awakening memories and fostering new perspectives when assembled onto landscapes. By employing architectural language and abstraction, Gholizadeh explores point of view, perspective, and scale, distilling landscapes into geometric shapes that strip away extraneous details. This process reveals the essence of memory and emotion, portraying the relationship between landscape and recollection as a path to rediscovering what we already possess.
