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5 Kichik Gala str., Icheri Sheher, 

Baku, Azerbaijan, AZ1001

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ARTIM PROJECT SPACE PRESENTS HABIB SAHER'S THIS TOO SHALL PASS SOLO EXHIBITION

19 Feb - 13 Mar 16

YARAT Contemporary Art Space is delighted to announce the launch of series of exhibitions that were selected through Artim project open call. The first exhibition to inaugurate the programme is Habib Saher’s solo show 'This Too Shall Pass'.


The show ‘This Too Shall Pass’ draws its inspiration from various disciplines including the practice of sand mandala and Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam to muse on ephemerality of existence, inevitability of death and the beauty of that short period called life. The artist approaches sculpture as a metaphor for anything corporeal and presents a body of work that will auto-destruct in the course of the exhibition. 

Much in the vein of Auto-Destructive art of the 1960s, the artist aims at challenging the notion of art as a commodity and wants to emphasize its spiritual and philosophical capacity.


Artist Statement

I have always been fascinated to see the Buddhist monks of Tibet spend months of work in their temples for drawing a big and complicated colorful painting made of colored sand on the ground and at the end destroy it often by opening the doors and windows for the wind to swipe away all of their effort as a symbol of the Buddhist doctrinal belief in the transitory nature of material life. The initial sparkle of these series was born in my mind when I watched a documentary on how artworks of the famous graffiti artist Banksy are being ripped off along with the wall to be sold in auctions, which is totally counter to the spirit this artist created them for. 

Art is meant to be an experience not a product. So I decided to make some artwork which is only an experience and cannot be turned to a product later and also symbolizing mortality of the nature at the same time. I began working on works which will self-destruct by the end of their exhibiting period. So all the works exhibited will have their own life span. They will live and die during the time that is meant for them to be exhibited. The spirit of the works are based on my all-time thoughts about our existence and our relation with the time. That how we are gifted our times on earth and how should we evaluate it. 

I can say that this exhibition is a great representation of my thoughts, ideas and worries about the existence, the time and the being.

February, 2016


The exhibition will be accompanied with a series of events that includes a conversation with the artist, a film screening and a poetry reading evening all held at the ARTIM Space. 


Habib Saher (b.1986) is a Baku-based artist of Iranian descendant. He has obtained his bachelors and masters degrees in Sculpture from the Academy of Arts in Baku. Saher has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Baku and intenationally including Semeni International Art Exhibiton – Heydar Aliyev Center, Caspian Art Exhibition, Zavod contemporary Art Exhibition and Summer Group Show at the Seed Corn gallery, Berkeley, CA.


Dates: 19 February >13 March 2016

Working time: 12:00 > 20:00 (Every day except Monday)

Opening Day: 19 February 2016

Time: 19:00

Admission is free

Venue: ARTIM Project Space

Address: Old City (Icherisheher) Boyuk Gala Street 30, 001A 

More details: info@yarat.az; 012 505 1414


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