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Solo project with Ayan Farah

“Land is the medium to me and also the subject” - Ayan Farah’s works are neither “sculptures” nor “paintings,” but object-like “receptacles” of specific places and their history. Farah combines aspects of Western Abstract Art and Land Art with techniques of African Arts and Craft. Her “paintings” and “sculptures” are never painted on canvas with brushes or produced with the usual work materials, but consist of historical textiles of the past centuries “treated” with the minerals and earths of the most various geographical locations, which Farah …