From Caspian to Pink Planet: I Am Here

Artists

Vusala Agharaziyeva, Rashad Alakbarov, Irina Eldarova

Press release

National Participation - Azerbaijan (Republic of)

Entitled "From Caspian To Pink Planet: I Am Here", co-edited by Luca Beatrice and Amina Melikova, it is in perfect line with the theme of the 60th art exhibition "Foreigners everywhere" and offers a multifaceted portrait of Azerbaijani artistic production, still little known internationally yet vibrant and extremely enterprising.

"Imagine landing on a completely unknown pink planet,” says Agharaziyeva. "How would you feel? This is what I want people to ask themselves when faced with my painting." The Azeri artist draws inspiration from her personal experiences and puts on canvas all the sense of disorientation and strangeness that accompanies the experience of migrating.
 

A work that inevitably sheds light on that strange link that unites the individual and the places he inhabited, underlining how our identity is constantly evolving and depends on the perspective with which we approach the world.
 

"The place of birth is not just a point on the map," explains Alakbarov. "It is also a set of memories, experiences and cultures that shape us as people."