Sonya Schönberger at Atbin Art Gallery, Tehran

Yesterday Came Suddenly - Sonya-Schonberger

“Yesterday Came Suddenly” opens at Atbin Art Gallery, Tehran on Friday 29th of Jan, 2010.
The Drawings and installation by German Artist Sonya Schönberger is curated by Amirali Ghasemi, Tehran and it’s the 1st exhibition of a series of solo shows by international artists in Iran organized by parkingallery, in various galleries of Tehran. There is a small catalog will be launched in the occasion of the exhibition by newbookz, and a limited edition poster printed in silkscreen designed by Shahab Tondar.
The Exhibition will continue till feb 4th, 2010 , 5-9 pm. The artist herself will be present in the gallery at the opening. further info on the time and date of the artist talk  and presentation will be announced soon.

Atbin Art Gallery founded in 2000 in Tehran by an art lover family and is dedicated to supporting and introducing young artists and new talents.

Yesterday came suddenly
The stitchings of Sonya Schönberger

Everyday we take them in. News images, fragments and flashes of reality: Dreadful. Horrible. Despairing. It is a phenomenon of our time. Events created to satisfy a mass that has an insatiable appetite, yet whimsically turns its head and looks the other way in neglect. Each year the machine evolves, focuses, becomes more tuned to the mass, as sharp as a needle, accelerating towards a singularity of human as consumer, information as commodity.
Alone with a needle, in self-imposed isolation. Creating time to think. Making an ornament, a decoration. Something childlike and not quite a drawing. Something that requires meditation. This is an attempt to understand, and to make things visible.
We are the spectators, listeners, and customers. We listen to news radio features, watch nightly news programs, read the headlines of daily newspapers; we constantly take in the images that falsely reflect what happens in our communities and on opposite sides of the world. The digital medium (digital photography and modern communication networks) make things visible in an instant. A finger on the trigger is an image in the wire. How can we experience this speed and react to it, develop emotions, and be compassionate?
These questions can be unnerving. Using her own focused needle, artist Sonya Schönberger scrutinizes the press wire. Working for an international news agency, she has a gained a unique perspective of this complex system. Reversing the process of an emerging press image by reflecting and stitching what she perceives, she attempts to open eyes and to show a reflection of the the daily food we swallow.

Nat Munari, Berlin, 2010

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