Wednesday 16 May 2012

Aedas Presents Bharti Parmar - The Breakfast Talk

To accompany Bharti Parmar's site-specific work for the Aedas Studio, "Shag": a shagpile carpet made from human hair, Aedas Presents held an exclusive invitation only breakfast talk last week.

Following a short informal presentation of the background of "Shag" by the artist, we held a conversation on the social and cultural issues that this work raises.  A total of 17 attendees joined us at this event from various disciplines ranging from theatre, anthropology, science and architecture. 

Bharti also showed us a video of part of her inspiration - Zoran Todorovic,‘Warmth’.  Large quantities of industrial type sheets-blankets, produced from human hair leaving the ‘imprint of hundreds of Serbian people’.

The event proved to be an interesting, insightful and enjoyable start to the day.




Key themes included:

·         Hair – structural/sculptural quality
·         Memory stimulated through love tokens – mourning jewellery (18th/19th century), sentimentality.
·         Paradox of hair, it is dead yet conjures up images of a living person.
·         Hair- self/identity
·         Site-specific, challenge of exhibiting within an office environment.
·         ‘Shag’, a substitution- green rug/hair rug. Derived from surrealist movement.
·         Disgust and desire.
·         Cool corporate environment, disrupt the space with slightly ‘taboo’ elements.
·         The process/origins of the hair (European expensive, most asian hair cheaper)


The show will remain at Colmore Plaza until the end of May.  To arrange a visit please email: aedaspresents@aedas.com.

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Aedas Presents is supported by Arts Council England.

Friday 4 May 2012

Aedas Presents Bharti Parmar - This is how it's done!

Here's a short video of artist Bharti Parmar trying to teach Aedas marketing Kate Eagle how to create her very own carpet from human hair!




If you fancy a go, the show will remain at Colmore Plaza until Friday 1st June.  To arrange a visit please email
aedaspresents@aedas.com or +44(0)121 456 1591.

Aedas Presents - Please comment!

Please could you take two minutes to provide us with feedback for our Aedas Presents programme.


Thank you!  Your support is much appreciated!


(L-R curator Charlie Levine and Aedas marketing Kate Eagle)

Aedas Presents Bharti Parmar - The Preview Show

A big thank you to everyone who attended last nights preview for Aedas Presents Bharti Parmar!  A lovely relaxing evening, and we were so proud to show Bharti's fabulous carpet which took so much hard work, dedictaion and patience to create for Aedas Presents.

Don't worry if you couldn't make it the show will remain at Colmore Plaza until Friday 1st June.  To arrange a visit please email aedaspresents@aedas.com or +44(0)121 456 1591.

Thank you to Bharti for 9 months hard work to bring this vision into reality!


'SHAG' in it's new home - The Aedas Studio


The tools of Bharti's craft

Bharti Parmar made a piece work about substitution for Aedas Presents.  By making an intervention within the space and fabric of the studio, she has substitute a green designer shagpile carpet to make us think again of what we see.

SHAG is a human hair sculpture.  The hair has been sourced from wigmakers’ suppliers and originates from Europe and China.  Additionally, hair donated by staff at Aedas has been incorporated into the carpet.  SHAG contains over £700 worth of hair.

SHAG is an important artwork and in placing it within a minimal corporate space it brings to mind notions of discomfiture, taboo, fetish and matter out of place.  The accompanying video provides insight into the artist’s process of making the carpet. 

See a copy of the video here:


The show will remain at Colmore Plaza until Friday 1st June.  To arrange a visit please email
aedaspresents@aedas.com or +44(0)121 456 1591.



Thank you for your support!!
(L-R artist Bharti Parmar, curator Charlie Levine and Aedas marketing Kate Eagle) 

Further details can be found at:
Follow us on Twitter: @AedasPresents

Thursday 3 May 2012

Aedas Presents Bharti Parmar - Tonight!

We look forward to seeing you tonight at Aedas Presents Bharti Parmar preview!

Preview Show: Thursday 3rd May 2012
Location: Colmore Plaza, Birmingham, UK
Time: 5 pm to 7 pm

Have a go at making your own human hair rug!

Wednesday 2 May 2012

Aedas Presents Bharti Parmar - Tomorrow!

Preview Show: Thursday 3rd May 2012
Location: Colmore Plaza, Birmingham, UK
Time: 5 pm to 7 pm

We look forward to seeing you tomorrow night at Colmore Plaza from 5 pm!




‘Shag’ is a 5ft2 human hair shagpile carpet made using traditional wigmaking techniques by UK artist Bharti Parmar. It has been commissioned by curator Charlie Levine for Aedas Presents and forms an artwork intervention in the corporate office spaces of Global Award Winning architects Aedas.
The show will remain at Colmore Plaza until Friday 1st June. To arrange a visit please email
aedaspresents@aedas.com or +44(0)121 456 1591
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Further details can be found at:
www.aedaspresents.blogspot.com
www.bhartiparmar.com
http://www.charlielevine.co.uk/