The magic of Azerbaijani artist Faig Ahmed's carpets

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Faig Ahmed, a young artist from Azerbaijan (a country in the Caucasus that borders Armenia) is the author of surprising artistic compositions using carpets. As a child, he says that he destroyed one of his great-grandmother's carpets with scissors while playing in the maze of patterns. It was the beginning of her journey exploring the shapes, textures and meanings of rugs.

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Given the delicate political situation in Azerbaijan and most of the former republics of the Soviet Union, Ahmed's works have a political connotation: the combination of different patterns in a single rug is a strong statement of the possibility and beauty of coexistence.

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