"Muraqqa" Audio-Visual Painting
Premiered in Venice Contemporary Art Biennale 2019 #AP edition
A Muraqqa is an album containing paintings of different miniature styles from different periods in Azerbaijan’s history. The images present a conventional realism and static structure, but the narrative hides inner dynamics. Frozen moments contain rich variations of potential actions.
The artist has reproduced original miniature paintings and represented them as a linear digital story. The authentic traditional Muraqqa becomes a source for the construction of an alternative virtual replica. The artist has added his stories to the original content and created a video installation. He sets the cha...