UNTITLED ART FAIR Miami | Nov 29 - Dec 4, 2021

Osaretin Ugiagbe & Hiva Alizadeh

In collaboration with The Flat: Massimo Carasi, Milan, SARAHCROWN is proud to present works by Nigerian-born artist Osaretin Ugiagbe and Iranian-born artist Hiva Alizadeh at  UNTITLED Miami Beach 2021.

The booth aims to investigate the space of existential interrogation, the realm between sculpture and painting, and the question of cultural heritage in a foreign country.

Osaretin Ugiagbe (b. 1986 Lagos, Nigeria) is a painter and photographer who lives and works in the Bronx and Baltimore. He has worked extensively on social documentary projects in the United States, the Caribbean, Europe, China and Nigeria. Much of his work focuses on themes of displacement and longing. Ugiagbe has exhibited his work at the Bronx Documentary Centre and the Bronx Museum in New York, NY, the De Cacaofabriek in Helmond, Netherlands, amongst other contemporary galleries.

Hiva Alizadeh’s work founds its roots in Persian tradition and in its millenary skill of weaving Kerman carpets. Though this artist applies his technique and knowledge using a different material in order to create a contemporary interpretation of a texture and adding to it a cosmopolitan and a psychic touch. The tapestries woven by Alizadeh are created using synthetic hair extensions, that he composes in vibrant fluo color palettes. The East and the West meet in Alizadeh’s works, generating a complex perceptual texture. His work has been exhibited at numerous Iranian galleries and debuted internationally at the 2018 Bienvenue Art Fair in Paris, France. In 2019 he held "Nomad Chants” his first European exhibition, at The Flat: Massimo Carasi in Milan.