Maverick Mist

Social Fabric, yellow blue red
Carpet pieces on wood (2017)
Nevin Aladağ
(German, born Turkey, 1972)

'Nevin Aladağ combines pieces if tapestry and carpets from various parts of the world arranged as abstract works.  Different forms and motifs from Persia or from eastern Azerbaijan join monochrome segments with triangles and circles that negotiate formal elements of color, line, and space.  Ornaments, big cats, and birds from the Iranian regions of Tabriz, Nain, and Balochistan (symbolizing fertility, power, and happiness) contrast with monochromatic color fields and allude to craftsmanship going back hundreds of years.

The subject of borders and transgressing borders is not just addressed in terms of content, but also formally. Aladağ suggests the various onnotations of "social fabric"; social spaces are constituted by social fabrics, the demographic, historical, and cultural segments that constitute the structure of a society.  Aladağ's Social Fabric works suggest various temporalities that question conditions of production, globalized trade, and postcolonial perspectives introduced into a contemporary context.'

Social Fabric, blue petrol yellow
Carpet pieces on wood (2017)

Social Fabric, turquoise blue red
Carpet pieces on wood (2017)