Shervin/e Sheikh Rezaei
Inhale Me
2025
€265,00
Offset print on 115gr Blueback paper
59,4 x 84,1 cm
Edition of 15 copies, signed & numbered by the artist
In stock
about this work
Shervin/e Sheikh Rezaei’s Inhale Me is a detail from a new series of works developed during her residency at the School of Gaasbeek and recently exhibited at CC Strombeek.
The series consists of larger and smaller works, rhythmically connected through a repetition of patterns, circles, and broken lines. The construction of the works seems painterly: precise, almost industrial pencil lines alternate with an organic interplay of graphic shapes, stains, and smudges. In addition, fragments of white lace, collages, and words add a narrative layer. Sheikh Rezaei explicitly questions the power and meaning of words, symbols, and contemporary power structures. The words are forceful, almost commanding, yet simultaneously demand submission. Phrases like ‘use me’ or ‘fear me’ could just as easily come from the mouths of lovers as from recent newspaper headlines. Are they commands, memories, desires, clichés, or facts?
For PLAKT, we chose to highlight a detail from one of the bigger works. The fragile pencil lines remain just visible, but our attention is drawn by the graphic elements: a geometric shape and the words ‘inhale me’. The shape, composed of circles and lines, resembles a pipe or a medical inhaler. By taking these elements out of context and relocating them to the public space, an intimate message suddenly becomes highly political. While the original works reflect on power structures and the relationship between submission and authority on an interpersonal level, here our relationship with the city comes into focus. Is this a love letter to the city or a statement of ecological activism? Sheikh Rezaei leaves that question unanswered—and it is precisely in that openness that the strength of her work.
This edition is the very same print you can see pasted in public space as part of our PLAKT series. We saved 15 pristine copies to present as a limited edition – signed and numbered by the artist.
about Shervin/e Sheikh Rezaei
In her multimedia practice Shervin/e Sheikh Rezaei explores the contrast between the fluidity and invasiveness of nature/humanity and the controlled and impersonal language of technology. An attraction to the irrational and emotional, took her from architecture to the autonomous visual arts. Sheikh Rezaei often uses uncontrollable elements in her work, such as movement, organic materials and themes of memory. She also often uses personal, intimate experiences to further explore spatiality. In her works, which range from pencil drawings to videos, sculptures and installations, she always seeks a balance between logic and intuition, control and self-analysis.
Shervin/e Sheikh Rezaei studied Medien Architektur at the Bauhaus University in Weimar (DE) in 2017 and graduated as an architect in Experimental Architectural Design at the Faculty of Architecture K.U. Leuven in Ghent (BE) in 2018. In 2019-2020 she became a guest lecturer for the subject Mixed Media Interior Design at LUCA School of Arts in both Brussels and Ghent. Since 2019 Sheikh Rezaei started working for Architecten Jan De Vylder Inge Vinck. In June 2021, Sheikh Rezaei took the step to fully pursue her own art practice. Since then, she has shown her work at, among others, Fuse, Zurich; C-MINE, Genk; CC-Strombeek, Grimbergen; Lichtekooi, Antwerp; and Museum Dhondt- Dhaenens, Deurle.
You can discover more of Shervin/e Sheikh Rezaei’s work on her website.
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