the collection of conceptual art, writings and bio of the artist
Haleh Niazmand's Studio:
Re-Orient
2003-2005
Examining the components of the whole in isolation has dominated Western thoughts for centuries, and from such viewpoints, classification, and categorization have manufactured self-serving propagandistic stereotypes. In this way of perceiving, not knowing is considered an inadequacy that must be conquered, and therefore, where real knowledge is lacking, a convenient substitute is imagined.
Re-Orient focuses on Stereotypical assumptions of the West regarding the East and calls for a re-evaluation of such perceptions.
With its loaded title both in Muslim and Christian countries, this inaccurately rendered painting of a young girls vagina puts the viewers on the spot to recognize their tendency of sexualizing images, even in the absence of a suggestive overtone.