Statement:

 "Dinge Weltweit" is Maureen Paley's new exhibition by Köln based artist Behrang Karimi. This will be his second exhibition with the gallery and his first solo presentation across the gallery's two London spaces.

behrang karimi: “My personal time in the studio starts only by late evening. Then my preparation begins, cleaning, thinking, looking, slowly drawing, reading or not. When I have a good day/night, the focus gets right and it creates energy. I can then forget my body and the time passing and I can draw and paint without thinking in a usual sense.///

This is mostly what I am looking for. You could compare it with a hunter in the forest, who needs to be very focused and concentrated to not take the wrong step or make too much noise while sneaking through the woods."“Music is the most powerful tool to get your mind into energetic moods. But that is a controlled and conscious move. I choose the music for this special moment in the studio, to get into the rhythm and painting.Music is connected to the body, but more interesting is how emotions work and get stimulated by nearly everything around us. We just learn to not listen to it, because we don’t need to in the industrialised world.