Heydar Aliyev Center hosts regional art showcase in Love Me, Love Me Not

Love Me Love Me Not: Contemporary Art from Azerbaijan and its Neighbours

Group Exhibtion at Heydar Aliyev Cultural Center, Baku, Azerbaijan

YARAT Contemporary Art Space presents Love Me, Love Me Not: Contemporary Art from Azerbaijan and its Neighbours at Heydar Aliyev Cultural Center, Baku, 4th April to 25 May 2014.

Love Me, Love Me Not is an exhibition of contemporary art from Azerbaijan and its neighbours, featuring recent work by sixteen artists from Azerbaijan, Iran, Russia, and Georgia. The exhibition is produced and supported by YARAT, a non-profit contemporary art organisation based in Baku, and curated by Dina Nasser-Khadivi.

The exhibition offers a diverse range of media and subject matter, with video, installation and painting all on show. Pieces range from those steeped in historical reference, to those with more site-specific responses, through to those which are inspired by personal history.

By bringing artists from Azerbaijan and its surrounding region together in one exhibition, Love Me, Love Me Not will create new perspectives on the contemporary art of Azerbaijan, as well as that of Iran, Russia and Georgia.

"Each piece in this exhibition has a role of giving the viewers at least one new perspective on the nations represented in this pavilion, with the mere intent to give a better understanding of the area that is being covered. Showcasing work by these artists in a single exhibition aims to, ultimately, question how we each perceive history and geography" explains curator Dina Nasser-Khadivi.

Featured artists: Faig Ahmed (Azerbaijan), Rashad Alakbarov (Azerbaijan), Afruz Amighi (Iran), Shoja Azari (Iran), Rashad Babayev (Azerbaijan), Mahmoud Bakhshi (Iran), Ali Banisadr (Iran), Ali Hasanov (Azerbaijan), Orkhan Huseynov (Azerbaijan), Sitara Ibrahimova (Azerbaijan), Aida Mahmudova (Azerbaijan). Taus Makhacheva (Russia), Farhad Moshiri (Iran), Farid Rasulov (Azerbaijan), Slavs and Tatars ('Eurasia'), Iliko Zautashvili (Georgia)

Entrance: 5 AZN

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