Rearranged: Selected Works from 1998 to 2014 is a survey show and reinterpretation of the career of Bita Fayyazi, conceived by Rokni and Ramin Haerizadeh.

Rather than regard Fayyazi as a sculptor, installation artist or ceramicist, engaged in some mystic relationship with her materials, Rearranged refers to several iconic moments in the artist’s career to describe her performative and markedly social practice. 

Beginning in the mid-1990s, Fayyazi’s artistic interventions challenged the official definitions of art that were often circulated in Tehran at that time. Fayyazi struggled to show her work amid an atmosphere of stuffy traditionalism, academicism, and the influx of ‘90s conceptual art from abroad.

Each of the works arranged here has its roots in a form of participative social sculpture: Gathering whatever materials are readily available, Fayyazi also gathers together artists and non-artistically-inclined collaborators who can wrap and entwine, paint and cast. She reconstitutes the energies of a multitude of people toward an uncertain result. The final object becomes, therefore, less important than the process – the collective doing, and the love of doing – that preceded its creation.