AGA LAB

Artist-in-Residence June:
Pedram Sazesh is an artist who has lived and worked between Rome, Toronto, New York, Tangier, Tehran, Amsterdam, and, New Haven. He often finds himself unoriented. Asked about this while in Tangier in 2014, Pedram responded, “I sense, that I forgot to recollect my face from the US customs and immigration border security desk.” He has since misplaced his face again in 2017, 2019, and 2023 at other immigration counters.
His work speculates on material histories of dyes, transient sites of nomadic textile weavings, migration, and notions of national heritage as subjects to excavate personal narratives.
During this residency, he has continued his material research and reflection on the social and political functions of the printed image in the pre-revolutionary political period in Iran, primarily focusing on print ephemera published for circulation by both clandenstine guerrilla resistance groups and state-affiliated newspapers in the 1970’s.

Artist-in-Residence June: Michele Boulogne (b.1996, Martinique, FR) is an artist and researcher based in french Normandy and Amsterdam.
Her practice investigates how identity and cultural memory are shaped through spatial sciences.
Drawing from the histories of textile and visual arts, she explores how distant geographies, astronomical phenomena, and large-scale natural events, often perceived as too remote and abstract, become embedded in material culture and collective memory.
She asks : What can be the role of visual arts in shaping the identities of those who inhabit, represent, or narrate these landscapes?
Influenced by her Caribbean heritage and space studies, her work often takes the form of visual collages, layered compositions that mirror fragmented histories and overlapping temporalities. She combines artisanal and industrial textile techniques such as weaving, knitting, dyeing and photographic processes like photo etching.

Workshop: Basic Etching on zinc plates
🗓️ 20 June, 10:00—17:00
👤Max. number of participants: 5
✨Level: Beginners & Intermediate

In this workshop, we’ll cover the basics of etching and aquatint on zinc starting from your own drawing. You will learn how to polish and degrease the plate, etch lines with hard ground and copper sulphate, how to create different greyscales with aquatint, and how to print on paper with the etching press.

Etching is a traditional intaglio printmaking technique. In it, lines and textures are engraved over a zinc plate, allowing the incised areas to hold ink. The technique is suitable for illustrative and abstract artworks.

🎟️ Workshop fee: €170

The workshop fee covers most of the printing materials for the session, and you will get one extra day for free in the AGALab workshop to come back and experiment further!

💛What’s included:
Introduction to Etching on zinc.
1 master
Ink (black)
Paper, tools, and materials

⚠️ Important:
You must bring a drawing or idea for a project that you would like to reproduce on your plate. (maximum A5)
We will do a maximum of three aquatint baths, which means that you can have a maximum of three grey levels.

📄 You go home with:
Your etched plate, which can be used again
A set of 2-3  prints of your own design

✉️ Sign up: [email protected]