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Cursed into Slum, from Fictionville series, 2010, mixed media on paper, 29.7x21 cm, courtesy of Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
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Act Like You Talk, from Fictionville series, 2010, mixed media on paper, 29.7x21 cm, courtesy of Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
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Fictionville, 2010, paint on screenshots, mixed-media on paper, 29.7x42cm each, Courtesy of Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Installation view, photo by Amina Khansaheb
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Fictionville, 2010, paint on screenshots, mixed-media on paper, 29.7x42cm each, Courtesy of Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Installation view, photo by Plamen Galabov
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Fictionville, 2010, paint on screenshots, mixed-media on paper, 29.7x42cm each, Courtesy of Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, still
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Fictionville, 2010, paint on screenshots, mixed-media on paper, 29.7x42cm each, Courtesy of Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, still
Cursed into Slum2, from Fictionville series, 2010, mixed media on paper, 29.7x21 cm, courtesy of Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
Project Description
“Devoid of pitiful moralising and surpassing fetishistic infatuation with depictions
of human sordidness, in the series Fictionville Rokni Haerizadeh cunningly (and
controversially) violates and perverts found photographic media images depicting
human suffering into an anthropomorphic Orwellian world of fairytales: humourous,
grotesque, satirical, bitter. With spontaneous violent fantasy, Haerizadeh applies
layers of gesso and bonding, breaks down the apparent integrity of the image, drains
away the reductive moral stance, absolves his found canvas of its account of truth
– in the Nietzschean sense unmasking all accounts of the truth in order to arrive
closer to the truth. It is ruthless criticism in the spirit of creative play.”
Vali Mahlouji ‘Fictionville: A Place Beyond Good and Evil Reflections on Violence and the Society of Spectacle’
Courtesy of Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
April 2011
This project was part of Sharjah Biennial 10
