Bavan Gallery is pleased to present "The pleasure of worthlessness" by Shadi Yasrebi, this is the artist's first solo exhibition with the gallery. Shadi Yasrebi (b.1989, Tehran, Iran) received her BA in Graphic at Azad University. She had participated in “Fertile Paper” group exhibition at Bavan Gallery. she exhibited her first Solo exhibition at Knack Gallery (2018, Tehran). Yasrebi had learned modern Calligraphy techniques and worked for 7 years in this field but in 2015 she changed her approach and she had started to create artworks from cardboard and scarps. Shadi Yasrebi is a process-oriented artist whose artworks are made based on the process that matter goes through. She creates her works from heaps of found objects amid throwaways and recyclables. By collecting and relocating these materials and adding collage, color, and linear elements, the artist tries to extract form from matter. The main basis and platform for these artworks are worthless material that shows reactions by adding color.

No definition of us is perfect, no observer can see all of us, no one is aware of the inner layers, of the sense of worthlessness hidden in our achievements. To what extent does being loved by others depend on our inherent and intrinsic values and to what extent it depends on the external valuations? My subconscious attempt to collect discarded items and change them into works of art was liberating for me and allowed me to reconsider the roots of the sense of worthlessness and think about this challenge that how much the place or geography might influence the character and identity of a person or an object. It persuades me to continue these reconstructions, and also made me look at the not-so-beautiful spaces and parts of the city walls that are full of irrelevant and incomprehensible writings and numbers. A worthless substance detached from this context tries to show off its new life in a new body and place to the audience.