Azerbaijani artist Faig Ahmed is an artist whose work focuses on the
construction and deconstruction of traditional patterned rugs and
carpets. Carpets were initially seen as a sophisticated form of writing
rather than a decorative piece. Each element of the pattern was once a
written sign. Ahmed’s work explores how a carpet is more a time
structure than a graphical one.
In his artist’s statement, Ahmed says “I’ve been always fond of investigating and researching every detail of anything that had interested me… I’m heretofore harried by a question others have left in childhood – “what is inside?” That’s why I’m changing habitual and visually static objects making them spatial, giving them a new depth. And this as if reveals the essence of this object – the object that was mediocre just a minute ago.”
Ahmed’s work can be see on his artist website www.faigahmed.com.
