Kadel Willborn

Ayan Farah

Info: How do we define a place? Ayan Farah’s work is marked by her deep interest in the geographical and geopolitical characteristics of the places she spends time in, most recently Sweden, Senegal and England. In these places, she collects minerals, soil or plants such as indigo, which she later uses in her studio to produce pigments for dyeing. The pictorial ground always consists of historical textiles from the 18th and 19th centuries, which Ayan Farah cuts up into individual fragments for dyeing and later sews together again by hand and machine to form strict compositions. (…)