Tammam Azzam

Tammam Azzam first gained attention in 2013 when he was forced to leave his studio in
Syria and began making digital photomontages in Dubai. His works look at the conflict
within art making in the face of war and violence, directly addressing the on-going conflict
in his home country. Azzam is inspired by the narratives of people through their
experiences and their connections to their surrounds. Although the motifs can often be
precisely located, the transformation goes beyond the object and beyond the event the
picture is based on. Using hand painted papers with more than 50,000 individual pieces,
his images come together like chaotic mosaics that unfold into powerful abstractions
resembling buildings, structures and disasters. Azzam has recently moved to Berlin where
he now lives and works. His works can be found in the Barjeel Art Foundation in Sharjah
and the For Site Foundation in San Francisco amongst others.

Farshad Farzankia
Farshad Farzankia is an Iranian artist and painter who lives and works in Copenhagen,
Denmark. Farzankia holds a bachelor degree in Visual Communication and
worked for 15 years as a Graphic Designer in the field of Poster and Music Design before
he and started painting full time. Farzankia's paintings, sculptures and drawings use
strategies of collage, remixing and quoting from the 80's to today. These contemporary
works are rich with references and allusions; such as the use of shoes which become
understood as symbols of migration and red tulips that surround faces pulled from iconic
posters from his childhood in Tehran. Through the repetition of these symbols, Farzankia
creates unique narratives; each new work expressing an original perspective and story.
His constructed lexicon questions how meanings change from one place to another in
physical and pictorial space. Drawing on the reference of Jean Michel Basquiat, the artist
explores the gestural, physical and symbolic language of Neo-Expressionism. Farzankia’s
work deeply questions the notion of crossing borders, exploring literal context shifts
through the use of figuration and abstraction from the formal to the iconic.

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