Sara Rahbar was born in Tehran, Iran in 1976 and lives and works out of New York. Her work ranges from photography to sculpture to installation, always stemming from her personal experiences and always emotionally autobiographical. The first body of work to generate international recognition was the flag series (2005-2011).
Sara Rahbar’s Flags
She uses traditional fabrics and objects reworking them into collages that form various incarnations of the American and Iranian flag, exploring ideas of national belonging, as well as the conflicting role of flags as symbols of ideological and nationalistic violence. She has produced an important series of works, both refined art and political statements; each of which is an encounter between the US flag and the emblems and materials of Rahbars native country, Iran. She uses real flags, installed vertically and horizontally, and sews a diverse range of materials onto them, while leaving the blue rectangle and its 50 stars untouched. These assemblages are composed of fine embroidered fabrics, bits of carpet, ornamental fringes, fragments of writing or whole texts, and, in some cases, yet more objects and images.
Sara Rabhar’s Flags
Rahbars work has been widely shown internationally, including Cairo, Mumbai, Dubai, Madrid, Vienna, Moscow, New York, London and Paris and is held in multiple collections worldwide, including the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Saatchi Collection in London, The Burger Collection in Hong Kong, the Devi Art Foundation in Gurgaon India and The National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts. Having had an Iranian roommate in college right around the time that Sara was born I am particularly attuned to the conflicting emotions of nationalities and flags, especially between our two countries.
In this, yet another election year, it would be great to take a moment and contemplate our flag and freedoms as envisioned in the creation of our country.
Wishing you all a safe and happy 4th of July!
click on the photo to go to the Prager Universities page and see how you can celebrate the 4th with meaning
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