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    Exhibition Faig Ahmed: Epoch 2011–2024 opens at Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum (PHOTO)

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    Exhibition Faig Ahmed: Epoch 2011–2024 opens at Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum (PHOTO)

    BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 12.​ The Azerbaijan
    National Carpet Museum opened the exhibition “Faig Ahmed: Epoch
    2011–2024” on September 11, Trend reports.

    Amina Melikova, the Director of the Azerbaijan National Carpet
    Museum, and Jahangir Salimkhanov, Advisor to the Minister of
    Culture of the Republic of Azerbaijan, delivered speeches and
    talked about the artist’s creativity and successful efforts in
    promoting Azerbaijani carpet art worldwide.

    The exhibited carpets have already been presented at prestigious
    cultural centers around the world, including the Shangri La Museum
    of Islamic Art, Culture & Design (Hawaii), the San Luis Obispo
    Museum of Art (California), the Pennsylvania College of Art &
    Design, the Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University (New Orleans),
    the Maraya Art Center (Sharjah), Museum Arnhem (the Netherlands),
    and the Textile Museum of Sweden (Borås). However, they are being
    presented in Azerbaijan for the very first time.

    Faig Ahmed is one of the most prominent contemporary Azerbaijani
    artists. His practice combines traditional carpet weaving with
    contemporary artistic thought, philosophy, and cutting-edge
    technologies. Preserving national traditions, the artist expresses
    them through the language of contemporary art, transforming them
    into a universal artistic code that resonates with audiences

    In addition to textile works, the exhibition also features the
    video pieces Social Anatomy (2016) and You Are the Mystery (2024),
    in which the artist explores textiles as a medium that reflects the
    processes of time and shifting cultural contexts.

    Faig Ahmed’s works have been exhibited at the Aga Khan Museum
    (Toronto), the George Washington University Museum and The Textile
    Museum (Washington, D.C.), the Victoria and Albert Museum (London),
    the National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne), the Museum of
    Contemporary Art of Rome (MACRO), and the Museum of Old and New Art
    (Tasmania), among other leading cultural institutions worldwide.
    His works are also held in the permanent collections of the Heydar
    Aliyev Center (Baku), the de Young Museum (San Francisco), the
    Birmingham Museum of Art (Alabama), the Museum of Applied Arts and
    Sciences (Sydney), the Art Institute of Chicago, the Los Angeles
    County Museum of Art, and many others.

    Since 2007, Faig Ahmed’s art, in which classical carpet patterns
    are reimagined in a contemporary context, has been widely acclaimed
    and recognized worldwide.

    The exhibition is on display until December 30, 2025.

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