Iman Hasbani slowly spreads a fine white line of sugar through Böttcherstraße in the heart of Bremen, drawing a path through the streets of her memory. Like the ice cream in the exhibition rooms, the white sugar leads us into the world of Iman Hasbani's childhood. These crystalline structures change just as our emotions change our memories. For her, white, red and black represent everything in the past. They are the colours of her memories.

What images come back to her? They are the feelings of childhood, of youth, of security and warmth. But also feelings of pain and hurt, of nakedness and helplessness, and fear, the fear of death, of being flayed. The protective shell becomes thinner, more permeable and fragile.

Iman Hasbani's exhibition When the Horizon Fades at the House of Syrian Art in Bremen presents performances and installations that explore transience. Memory and its transformation play a central role. 

The artist explores the relationship between emotions and memory processes, as memories are largely evoked by emotions. Memory has the ability to link places and images that are not associated with the same event. What connects them, however, is a feeling.

Iman Hasbani speaks of memory as 'a flexible space that reaches into distant times, deeper and further than the time of the event'. In the words of Walter Benjamin, 'experience is limited to a single circle, while memory is unlimited because it is only a key to everything that happened before and after'. The red grapes in front of her childhood home, drawn on white sheets of paper, are notations made over the course of two years. Again and again, similar feelings form into similar images and make them visible. Memories are not only created on paper, but also take shape in space. What do sculptures of feelings look like? What colour do they have? What is their consistency? 

As a contemporary artist, Iman Hasbani sees memory as the inspiration and driving force behind her work. For her, memory is a living space into which we are often involuntarily drawn. Memories find their way to us through dreams, pain or fear - even against our will. This is not about reproducing memories in a clear representation or linear narrative of events.

of events. Rather, it is the sensual aspect of memory that can be translated into visual images.

Frizzi Krella

Director HAUS DER SYRISCHEN KUNST

"Experience is limited to a single circle, while memory is unlimited because it is only a key to everything that happened before and after". Walter Benjamin

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 Photos:Frizzi Krella