Carbon12 (Dubai) showed the provicative, found-object work of Sara Rahbar at Expo Chicago 2018 (Navy Pier, September 28-30).
Rahbar was born in Tehran but now lives and works in New York City. She fled her homeland as a youngster in a time of incredible upheaval; these were the early days of the Islamic Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War. This history is the backdrop of her art. These experiences color her work decades later. Initially her art was more personal history but she has moved into a broader examination of the human condition.
These works are, as you may note, built on putting together found objects as sculpture or wall sculpture (she is also a photographer but there were no examples here). The objects used here are the refuse of war and call to mind how war has become integrated into our society--decades of war, the military-industrial complex.
Yet there is something else; these pieces are, by existing, an example of beating swords into plowshares and the world could do with more of that.
Rahbar was born in Tehran but now lives and works in New York City. She fled her homeland as a youngster in a time of incredible upheaval; these were the early days of the Islamic Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War. This history is the backdrop of her art. These experiences color her work decades later. Initially her art was more personal history but she has moved into a broader examination of the human condition.
These works are, as you may note, built on putting together found objects as sculpture or wall sculpture (she is also a photographer but there were no examples here). The objects used here are the refuse of war and call to mind how war has become integrated into our society--decades of war, the military-industrial complex.
Yet there is something else; these pieces are, by existing, an example of beating swords into plowshares and the world could do with more of that.
Find out more about Sara Rahbar at www.sararahbar.com.
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