Hal
2016
- Medium
- wool
- Measurements
- 196.5 × 165.0 × 87.5 cm (installed)
- Place/s of Execution
- Baku, Azerbaijan
- Edition
- ed. 3/3
- Accession Number
- 2017.1247
- Department
- Contemporary Design and Architecture
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds donated by Sarah Morgan and Andrew Cook, 2018
© Faig Ahmed
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Professor AGL Shaw AO Bequest - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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In his work, Faig Ahmed re-imagines the historical Azerbaijani carpet. Ahmed digitally distorts and rearranges centuries- old carpet patterns and compositions to unravel, often quite literally, our perception of tradition. Hal, 2016, is a woven woollen carpet made by the master weavers of Ahmed’s home town, Baku – the capital city of Azerbaijan, in the South Caucasus region, situated at the crossroads of Southwest Asia and Southeastern Europe. Both tactile and cerebral, the work is a new interpretation of Ahmed’s signature deconstructive approach, whereby a classical rug pattern ‘liquefies’ into a handwoven puddle on the gallery floor.