The logic of mythology

At Carbon 12 in Dubai, Anahita Razmi presents a new solo exhibition centred on the critical dismantling of contemporary myths and on the processes through which meaning is produced and stabilised within global visual culture. Her work operates in a space where everyday objects, familiar symbols and popular references become tools for examining power structures, systems of belief and forms of cultural memory. For Razmi, myth is not a distant or obsolete narrative but an active mechanism that turns ordinary signs into ideological carriers. Digital icons, garments, talismanic objects and cultural references are stripped of fixed meanings and observed in their semantic volatility, shifting according to context, circulation and use. It is within this instability that the artist locates a site of tension, where visual language exposes its political and social implications. The exhibition brings together new works and further developments of existing series, unfolding across video, installation, photography and text-based interventions. Rather than offering linear readings, the works rely on displacement, juxtaposition and transformation, creating a visual field in which heterogeneous references coexist without predefined hierarchies. Myth is not simply exposed or undone, but analysed as a productive force that actively shapes perception and behaviour.