04/12/2018 Severine Grosjean
Emir Sehanovic Alias Esh modifies faces and objects by giving them a new meaning.
Using ancient photographs that attract him, he manipulates them in an almost classical form of collage and assemblage. Driven by a constant interest about illusion and beliefs, his pieces have many visual pitfalls whose secrets are revealed only after a patient observation.
Photography is subject to a new interpretation. Between the method and the choice of photos, Emir Sehanovic practices a double heritage that includes history and culture. Faces seem to implode. Their identities blend and the portraits become haunting. Emir Sehanovic destroys the facade of the human face, and wants to take us far behind, on the other side of the eyes. A contact with the soul? Art is beyond that
His work leads to the frontiers of art. With an alternative rich, complex and diverse interpretation, Emir is part of this artistic scene from the Balkans that explores archaic and popular languages. It seems to revisit a traditional art in Bosnia, Molybdomancie. He invents unleashed singular worlds that ignite our relationship with the what is around us. Burned images are the metaphor for our excessive feelings and intimate experiences.
He is the master of his art and forms which come alive and are connected organically. With a liberated look of traditions and behaviours, we are astonished appearances revealed in their mythical and magical dimension. The faces are tortured like a sedimentation of the pain which plunges us into a world and destroy our logic.
Turning his back on the overly artificial and intellectualized performances of a certain contemporary art, he returns to more authentic forms of expression, open to the inner life. It puts into action the existential need to think the world by poeticizing it, to make resonate a language that would not make sense anymore.
Emir Sehanoc develops his own style with a particular aesthetic, like these latest works mixing sculptures and installations. Emir Sehanovic is in perpetual motion between the technique of his projects and his occasional collaborations with avant-garde musicians on the visual articulations of their sound explorations.
Partnership: The Nomad Creative Projects
