• Rashad Alakbarov

    Untitled, 2015 (Image: Rashad Alakbarov & YARAT)

  • Rashad Alakbarov

    Detail from Conclusion, 2015 (Image: Rashad Alakbarov & YARAT)

  • Rashad Alakbarov

    Precariousness of History, 2015 (Image: Rashad Alakbarov & YARAT)

  • Rashad Alakbarov

    Detail from Untitled (Omnes Viae Ducunt Venetias), 2015 (Image: Rashad Alakbarov & YARAT)

Rashad Alakbarov

Rashad Alakbarov’s work, shown at the YARAT Contemporary Art Centre's Union of Fire and Water event, situates itself in the Palazzo Barbaro’s 14th-century Gothic interior — a building once owned by an Azeri-speaking diplomat. His light, mirror and shadow installations spell out “I was here” if observed from a certain angle, a kind of impermanent graffiti. Like the visible-invisible mark that the Azerbaijani artist has left on the architecture of the Venetian palazzo, there is a point at which the links between Venice and Baku — the focus of YARAT’s collateral event — line up and become visible, if only momentarily.