"Guilty Pleasure" exhibition

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from exhibition "Müqəssir zövq" - "Quilty pleasure"

Aghaali Sadirli and Naila Dadash-zadeh

curated by Zahra Mammadova

special thanks to our collaborator on this project Leyla Eyvazova - who did the make up and was a camera operator on part of our project. As well as in the bottom part of the project you can see the upcycle products we decided to make out of the materials from the exhibition which are also made by Leyla.

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Aghaali Sadirli & Naila Dadash-zadeh
Infinity Date, 2023
Loop video, 4:39
Commissioned by Yarat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYI6fUXd8jc&t=39s

A human condition casually driving humanity into the oblivion*. The video work depicts a date scene between two human beings in dissonance to the global problems on the background. The artists are questioning the cultural validity of social activity, when seemingly it still doesn't lose its overbearing significance in society despite its cliché nature.

Aghaali Sadirli & Naila Dadash-zade
Nefsi-Memories (Wedding Photoshoot), 2023
Site-specific photo installation, various dimensions
Commissioned by YARAT

Nəfsi-Memories is a depiction of traditional wedding photo shooting usually done by couples before the wedding day mostly in an exaggerated fancy way as a local tradition to leave for future generations as a memory. The work is a logical continuation of the Infinity Date' showing the wedding photo shooting ceremony in a hypertrophic and comic way, criticizing the absurd significance and over glamourizing of it in contemporary realities. As well as a role we can see both bride and groom put on for “show”. A traditional stereotype of what a woman and a man should act like. The work invites contemplation on the nation of value and the power of representation.