Aydan is an Azeri artist and designer from British Columbia, working out of Red Hook, Brooklyn. She currently makes furniture, draws, and works in production design. She is also 1/5 of Songs of a Decoy.
Using the logic of familiar, domestic objects, Aydan’s work finds resonance between symbolic origins and contemporary simulacra. In collapsing the distinction between the two, she opens a third realm for viewing the mediation of reality, memory, and heritage within the contemporary Western landscape. Slipping between dream logic and the pull of nostalgia, influenced by Soviet and American cinema, her work emerges in a kind of twenty-first-century magical realism.
Inquire about projects, commissions, or collaborations:
studio@ay-dan.com
@aydannova