ARTIST TALK BY AGIL ABDULLAYEV

YARAT Contemporary Art Space is pleased to invite you to the YARAT Friends event for a private artist talk with Agil Abdullayev on occasion of his solo exhibition “Shy boy of the Pink Future” at ARTIM Project Space

The solo exhibition by Agil Abdullayev investigates on the influence of social media on the future of Azerbaijani society in terms of gathering information, forming opinions and engaging in discussions. It talks about a young generation with a new self- and social awareness blurring boundary between the digital and real, detaching from rigid definitions on gender, culture and nation.

The exhibition explores how dynamics of social media have changed the way citizens engage in public discussions, providing them low-cost routes into socially relevant topics. It has lowered barriers of participation and inequality in engagement. Furthermore, social media allow citizens to consume, produce and distribute and comment on news and information, thereby brings new opportunities to persuade socially. The exhibition discloses these tools associated with social media having a crucial impact on opinion making in the future.

Agil Abdullayev (b. 1992, Baku) primarily works in the medium of moving image, performance and photography. His practice examines the contrast between the East and West related to subjects such as public and private life, gender, social media culture, utopia and futurism bridging spaces in between these subjects. Abdullayev graduated this year from BA Fine Arts with First Class Honour at Nottingham Trent University and has been selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2018 as well been a recipient of "Attic Residency" by One Throsby Street in Nottingham, UK. Abdullayev’s works were shown in group and solo exhibitions such as the Liverpool Biennial, 2018; Primary Contemporary Art Space, 2017; The Wrong - New Digital Art Biennale, 2017; Tate Modern, 2016;   Yarat Pavilion at 4th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, 2012. Currently, Agil Abdullayev lives and works in Baku.

Drinks will be provided by Enoteca Meydan

Date: 29 November, 2018

Time: 7 pm

Venue: ARTIM Project Space
Address: Old City (Icherisheher) Boyuk Gala Street 30, 001A

Admission only for YARAT Friends platform members