Sanam Khatibi ‘Cyanide’ object With a presentation of the

With a presentation of the installation PAINTINGS ON A MAGAZINE anda talk with Christophe Van Gerrewey

1986) is best recognized for her monumental charcoal drawings of semi-imaginary

Barbara De Coninck writes a text to accompany the drawings and frames them in art history

Carina Diepens

winner of the Confituur book prize for her recent novel ‘Ik ga naar de schapen’

Sanam Khatibi ‘Cyanide’ object With a presentation of theThis publication focuses on Sanam Khatibis meticulously painted small still lifes. With the finest brush she applies light and shadow in oil paint to various miniature shapes. The compositions themselves are quite unassuming. Objects loom haphazardly from the golden or black background and seem to sing in polyphony in the vein of Orlando di Lasso, Johannes Ockeghem and other masters of polyphony. () The highly detailed objects come from a golden age