Foozhan Xajeh (b.1992, Iran)

Foozhan Xajeh
(b.1992, Iran)

  • A research based, multimedia artist and essayist
  • Lexicographer of arts

Email: foozhanxajeh@gmail.com

Education

MA, Ancient Iranian languages and culture, Allameh Tabataba’I university 2019-2023
BA, fashion and textile design, Art University of Tehran 2011-2015 Graphic design, Shahid Avini Art College of Tehran 2009-2011

  • MA, Ancient Iranian languages and culture, Allameh Tabataba’I university – 2019-2023
  • BA, Fashion and textile design, Art University of Tehran – 2011-2015
  • Graphic Design, Shahid Avini Art College of Tehran – 2009-2011

Exhibitions

  • “Studio in Movement” Baroque Art Gallery, 2023 (Private Show)
  • “Limited Access 8” 2019 (Group Show)
  • “Mega V Wabi Sabi”, Emarat e RooBeRoo, Summer 2018
  • “My Magic Vandalism”, Dastan Gallery, Otagh Bargh, Spring 2018
  • “Vandals Over the Bridge”, from “Mapping Karimkhan”, New Media Society, Tehran , 2017 (Group Show)
  • “Detour to Tehran” exhibition, experimental video, Red Noise, Hinterland Gallery in collaboration with Parking Gallery’s Archive, Vienna , Fall 2018 (Group Show)
  • ”Print on T-shirts”, Iranian Artists forum, Tehran, Iran (2014)
  •  ”Say No to Galleries” Street Exhibition, Tehran, IRAN (2012)

Videography

  • “Human .Textile .Street” Short Documentary film, Tehran 2015

Series and Experiences

  • Japanese Norens , 2016

  • Three parallel times of the travels of the astronaut astrolabe, painting 2016

  • Circuit, painting on textile, 2015

  • The wedding album, collage, 2015

  • Architecture in a cube, collage-Illustration, 2015

  • The under album, collage, 2014\

  • The friend album, collage, 2014

  • Present in wakefulness 1, fiber art, 2013

  • Present in Wakefulness 2, fiber art, 2013

  • Designing a circus, collage, 2012

  • Improvisational art in an old building, photography and fiber art, 2011

Urban Projects

  • I made textiles from scratch, cut them into star shapes and then pasted them on walls. There were some Letraset alphabets on each star, at the end they all formed a sentence 2016

  • Taped crosswords and their answers on walls 2015-2016

  • Photocopies that I glued on the wall and spontaneously performed paintings on it 2014-2016

  • Paintings on fabric, which then I taped to the walls 2015

  • Memory writings on the asphalt with chalk 2014-2015

  • Collages made out of old familial photographs and made huge photocopies and left on the walls 2013

  • Cut outs made of disco fabric in the shape of women that I pasted on walls 2012 Walkabouts in Sanaii project 2012

  • Tapestry cut outs that I pasted on the walls and left them 2012

Ongoing Projects

  • Mojon Collective, 2023
  • Sarina Diaries, 2022- on going
  • Mojde Sheikh Rezaee and I have been Curating works since the beginning of Corona virus at Roberto Café 2019- on going
  • I have been working on house, biography and interviews with neighbors Since 2017. In the end this project will be a Video-Interview.
  • Research and field-based study on the subject of vandalism and it’s relation to urban art since 2014
  • Study on the Urban landscapes of Japan; specifically, symbols used on hangings called Noren and its similarities and differences with the Ilm al Huruf Movement in Iran since 2015
  • Photographing urban graffiti and vandalism in Iran since 2012

Publications

  1. 1.An inventory of archive documents related to the great Khorasan in Iranian archives and libraries, completed by Seyed Ali Moujani, collabrators: Foozhan Khajeh and Sima Tayefeh , 2018
  2. General catalogue of Persian manuscripts of the greater Khorasan (Central Asia, Afghanistan and Northeast of Iran) in Iranian libraries, completed by Seyed Ali Moujani, collabrator: Foozhan Khajeh , 2017
  3. Manuscript of the Ilkhani’s period, completed by Ali Bahramian in collaboration with Foozhan Khajeh 2016

Articles

Authorship of the following articles for the Encyclopedia of Subcontinent:

  • Mokaram Isfahani
  • Mir Abdolbaghi Sahba
  • Sahmsoddin Mohammad Kateb Balkhi
  • Sahifa Baanoo
  • Sobhi
  • Sobhi Keshmiri
  • Zia Ghate’ Tatavi Baba Taleb Esfahani Tarighi Saavoji Fatholah shirazi

Awards

  • Selected from “Tan Posh” Festival, IRAN 2014

  • Selected from International Fashion and Clothing Festival, IRAN 2014

Courses

  • Persian Mythology and Mythology of the world courses under the supervision of Professor Jaleh Amouzegar, 2018-1019

  • Experimental video workshop run by Neda Zarf Saz, The Summer School of Moving Images by New Media Society 2018

  • Experimental video workshop run by Pouria Jahanshaad, New Media Society 2018

  • Two months course of textile design under the supervision of Professor Akram Ibrahim Beigi Chimeh 2016

  • Three Months course of tapestry under the supervision of Professor Shahrzad Gharavi 2016