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\"Vanessa Vanessa Safavi. Photo by Wilkosz and Way<\/p>\n

When describing an exhibition, there is the inauspicious necessity of translating what one saw into words. With Vanessa Safavi, this verges on the unthinkable. \u201cDescribing my artistic practice is very personal, it starts with my biography.\u201d
\nBorn in Lausanne to a Swiss mother and a French-Persian father, she grew up roaming the globe and developed an interest in ethnography and anthropology. Yet, even at 17, her artistic ambitions were already evident and she began renting a studio, before attending \u00c9cole cantonale d’art de Lausanne \u2013 one of Switzerland\u2019s most esteemed art schools. Despite her obvious talent, after she graduated in 2007, she decided against immediately pursuing an art career, and went on yet another jaunt across the world. \u201cI\u2019m only maturing as an artist now,\u201d she says. \u201cUp to this point I\u2019ve still been looking.\u201d
\nAs such, it is only in her recent exhibition in S\u00e3o Paulo, \u201ccloud metal cities\u201d (2014), that her connection to travel has begun to emerge. Prior to this show, she lived in the Brazilian capital on a one-month residency, and found inspiration in the gentrification that gripped the city as it prepared to host the 2014 World Cup. The result is a collection that abstractly reflects this changing urban environment, with rolled sheets of aluminium reminiscent of the brand new city skyscrapers that sprang up in S\u00e3o Paulo\u2019s former-shanty town districts, and the blue lights a reminder of digital connectivity. Scattered around the space were pieces of paper documenting brief encounters between strangers, expressing the transience of social relations under these oppressive new circumstances.<\/p>\n

\"cloud cloud metal cities, 2014. Aluminium sheets, silicones. Variable dimensions. Courtesy the artist and Kunsthalle S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil.<\/p>\n

Taken from Sleek 44 \u2013 What Women Want<\/em>
\nInterview von\u00a0Alicia Reuter<\/a><\/strong> \nWeiterlesen\u00a0interviews<\/a>\u00a0and find out more about\u00a0Sleek 44<\/a><\/strong> \n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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