Toulu Hassani: common shift

With precise sensibility and a concept of resistance, Toulu Hassani probes the essentials and parameters of painting and its properties. Her initial interest lies in exploring and grasping structures and orders. In a second step, she breaks with the given dispositions and criteria and uses the primary material to generate detours, turning points, and deviations from the norm: Arrangements, relations, and measurements routinely follow a pattern; they are organized in relation to the standards. A critique of standardizations places emphasis on the undefined and the potentially possible, on the not-yet-realized, the unexpected, and that which is not provided by the standard. Hassani acts in the same manner, expressing the unadjusted, the idiosyncratic, and contingencies in her work, thereby exploring the subject of unpredictability and randomness in a subtle way.

In this process, like in Persian miniature painting, patience, inspiration, a talent for drawing, and a sensibility for colors are important traits for Toulu Hassani to possess in order to create her works. The artist combines her unbiased approach to the patterning and textile peculiarities of the stretched canvas with delicate coloring, thus giving her material analyses a customized touch.