E Pluribus unum
2022 | 2017 | American flag I Laser-cut acrylic mirror mounted on plywood I 44 x 69 in
Center for Craft Ashville, NC | Lewis University, Southern Arkansas Art Center | upcoming Art Basel, Miami Florida |
Collaboration with Pedram Baldari
E PLURIBUS UNUM shares the same aesthetic of creating beauty out of destruction. I used Āina-kāri in E PLURIBUS UNUM, creating an American flag In front of a pile of a pile of bricks from a broken wall. With the glazed drawing of the politicians of Iran and the US kissing.
“Far from such centuries-old architecture of transcendence, Nooshin Hakim Javadi resurrects the tradition of mirror mosaics in her most recent body of work. As a sculptor and performance artist whose work spans many materials and media, Javadi investigates physical and metaphysical spaces in between cultures, people, and individuals. In her hands, the meaning of the mirrors changes into a dialogue dramatically different from earlier religious connotations: impossible to look at the carefully inlaid surfaces without meeting your reflection, distorted, cut, and carved by the sharp lines between tesserae.” By Christina Schmid