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For the Azerbaijan Pavilion the artist presents The Attention, an exhibition featuring seven works across seven rooms and which transforms traditional Azerbaijani carpet-making into contemporary works that reinterpret heritage. Canvas: How did you approach shaping the pavilion, and what kind of experience do you hope visitors will have? Faig Ahmed: I have created a space where one does not encounter art as an object but rather as a reflection of oneself. Each visitor has the

The artist’s immersive Biennale installation at Campo della Tana transforms ages-old carpet traditions into a meditation on consciousness, quantum logic and the country's future. Azerbaijan seldom registers on the art world’s map; for many, it remains shrouded in mystery, a place whose traditions and symbologies have not yet been colonized by the collective imagination. Yet with the opening of this year’s Venice Biennale, the image it wanted to project with its national pavil

Gwendolyn Collaço from the John Hay Library curated an exhibition by Azerbaijani artist Faig Ahmed for the prestigious Venice Biennale art exhibition and festival in Italy. PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Brown University curator and scholar Gwendolyn Collaço knows firsthand why the Venice Biennale exhibition is known as the Olympics of the art world. “You really have to challenge yourself to create something that is engaging, thoughtful and original in a set amount of