Sissi Farassat AT, b. 1969

Sissi Farassat's photographs embroidered with threads, sequins and Swarovski crystals first seduce us like the shop window of a jeweller, from which collars and earrings send their glittering rays into the grey everyday life: Instinctively we have to look, attracted like moths by the light. Even if the beads are made of glass and plastic, their sparkle stands for something valuable that outshines profane usefulness. But the artist, who was born in 1969 in Tehran (Iran) and has lived in Vienna since 1978, reflects with her embroidered photographs on the one hand the medium of photography itself, on the other the image of the woman in the photography and beyond that also her own origin.

Sissi Farassat studied photography under Nan Goldin and Friedl Kubelka and, from the mid-1990s, realized among other works Photographs with Swarowski Crystals, Stitch or Contact Sheet. From 1998 to 2010 she was also editor of the photo magazine SIOSEH.