Hotel Orient...
Hotel Orient the current exhibition of Sissi Farassat in the Bildhalle in Zurich and the name of an hour hotel in a prime location in Vienna... "The Orient is a place where longings are satisfied and rekindled, one after the other."
It is precisely this place that Sissi Farassat has used to record women, mostly from her inner circle of friends, in so-called typical female poses. She has captured brief moments and made them visible. With fine embroidery, she lays a delicate veil over them, veiling the obvious and adding a pinch of eroticism to the image. She awakens a quiet longing that wants to be put....
Like a red thread, the veiling, rather the re-veiling and the linking of threads leads through her works. The fine veil gets a completely different meaning in her works than it is often interpreted in the Occident. The veil hides the striking posing women want to reveal.
Her embroideries are reminiscent of the carpet weaving art from the Orient
Miryam Abebe
Schlebrügge
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