{"id":245834,"date":"2026-05-14T09:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/faig-ahmed-weaves-mysticism-science-technology-and-craft-into-the-attention-colossal\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T10:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:05:08","slug":"faig-ahmed-weaves-mysticism-science-technology-and-craft-into-the-attention-colossal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/faig-ahmed-weaves-mysticism-science-technology-and-craft-into-the-attention-colossal\/","title":{"rendered":"Faig Ahmed Weaves Mysticism, Science, Technology, and Craft into ‘The Attention’ \u2014 Colossal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Faig Ahmed Weaves Mysticism, Science, Technology, and Craft into ‘The Attention’ \u2014 Colossal<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2026\/05\/faig-ahmed-the-attention-venice-biennale-installation\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-05-14 09:42:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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Faig Ahmed is known for his vibrant textile sculptures that take traditional Azerbaijani ornamental carpets as starting point, often appearing to melt, pool, or glitch. In his current solo presentation at the 61st Venice Biennale, where he is representing Azerbaijan, the Baku-based artist branches out into more conceptual territory, exploring science, alchemy, spirituality, and perceptions of self in a sprawling, maze-like installation called The Attention.<\/p>\n

Curated by Gwendolyn Colla\u00e7o, the exhibition expands upon Ahmed\u2019s interest in the dialectic between digital processes and time-honored, hand-crafted techniques. The artist considers how advanced scientific inquiry, such as quantum physics and neuroscience, relates to how we \u201carticulate cosmologies of belonging,\u201d says a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cGarden of Awakening\u201d (2026), directional audio system<\/p>\n

Ornamental carpets continue as a through-line in The Attention, undulating, scrunching, distending, and balling up through a series of rooms. They even extend outdoors, creating a kind of continuous runner that spills out of doorways and stretches into long lines of color.<\/p>\n

\u201cAhmed bridges the 15th-century Hurufi mystic tradition\u2014which viewed the universe as a coded text\u2014with modern information theory,\u201d says a statement. \u201cBy channeling the \u2018human energy\u2019 of the weave, he uses this ancient textile paradigm to address our era\u2019s information overload and collective grief.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ahmed taps into a theoretical framework coined by physicist John Wheeler that can be summed up, rather enigmatically, as \u201cit from bit.\u201d It\u2019s a short way of describing an approach to information theory that string theorists and quantum mechanics researchers have tested. In other words, \u201c\u2026every it\u2014every particle, every field of force, even the spacetime continuum itself\u2014derives its function, its meaning, its very existence entirely\u2014even if in some contexts indirectly\u2014from the apparatus-elicited…<\/p>\n

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