Samaneh Roghani – the winner of The Solo Award

In relation to Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2019 experience a talk with Samenah Roghani, who received this year’s Solo Award for her work ‘Barzakh (Limbo)’, 2018.

Below, you can read an excerpt from the jury’s argument to choose Samaneh Roghani as the Solo Award winner: “The jury has decided to award this year’s Solo Award to the Iranian artist Samaneh Roghani (b.1984) for her work Barzakh (Limbo). Roghani has created a very special and important work, which presents an innovative approach to its constituent media (video, sculpture, installation) and notably manages to render the artist’s personal story moving, relevant, and significant. A unanimous jury was captivated by her ability to work formally and spatially while also convincingly and stringently coupling this to the work’s statement and content. The moving tale seems powerful, because Roghani is capable of translating her own private story into something that is both universal and important. And she does it in a work where viewers practically experience the theme on their own bodies: through the long corridor where our shadows become part of the video image of wandering people. We pass a number of ropes (with sinister associations to imprisonment and execution), but we do get through to the other side. The work interacts immersively with the gallery space. Precisely because the work incorporates viewers’ movements as part of its setting in time, the thought-provoking and menacing sides of the work only slowly become apparent to us. They get to us as we proceed through the sensuous passage. The impact is very strong, indeed.”

Samenah Roghani (b. 1984) is born in Iran and today, she studies at Kungliga Konsthögskolan in Malmö. This evening, Samenah Roghani will talk about her art work and artistic practice in a conversation with Thomas Lindvig, Chairman of the Board in Charlottenborg Fonden. Samaneh Roghani’s art work takes point of departure in her personal story about migrating, and she combines different media, which together create a spacious and sensory video installation. During the talk, you will hear about the artist’s catching story, which she has translated to something general and essential in her work.

This evening’s Charlottenborg Art Talk is in English and takes place from 17-18.30 in the Charlottenborg Art Cinema. The admission is free.