Parkingallery Projects | Tehran
Independent art space / Tehran, Iran
Audiovisual Performance by Arash Salehi
Interactive installation by Payman Abbasin
Wednesday 5th of May,Kashan
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Poster Designed by Amir Moghtadaei
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Excerpts from catalogue by Arash Fayez
This exhibition is the latest works of Peyman Hooshmandzadeh, a set of projects; “ Time “ , “ Bank Notes “ , “ Trampled “ And “ Knives “ , all have a common trait of documentary but in a new mould.
The elements that are common in this series are objects that are either on our person during the day or close by; bank notes in our pockets, clocks that decorate the offices, bits and pieces that are crumpled every day and knives that are to be found on certain people.
The earlier projects of the artist ; “ Tea House Regulars“ , “ Shooka Café “ , “ The Lads in Customs “ and “ Zourkhaneh “ were documentaries with inclination to cast certain types .
The presence of Humans particularly the men in a Patriarchal Society that we live in , is extremely visible. But the present exhibition emphasizes on objects ; objects that are thought provoking and at the same time trivial , we are called on to open our eyes and ears and to concentrate on details.
What becomes quite fascinating is that the previous series , the
“ Paradoxical Life “ is now the connecting link ; humans that were put behind window shields of cars with decorations that reflect our society as a cabinet of curiosities.
The common thread that can be found in the artists’ body of work , is the common man’s Culture ( the Folklore ) . A culture that by it’s nature is mixed with Kitsch art ( The collection of Time) and also describes the mundane everyday ( The Bank Notes ).
What happens in back alleyways of Tehran , from Café Shooka to the Customs House , the contents of our pockets , prints on shirts , the belts , the mustaches , all make up and form sub cultures that are full of contradictions but utterly Iranian….
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One of the few countries of the world whose people have been living in a dually politicized atmosphere for three decades is Iran; a nation -with a religious origin- which after a Cultural Revolution naturally stepped into a path that was different from the previously experienced one.
On View: April 9 – April 25, 2010 by appointment only
the temporary space/1320 Nance Street/Houston, TX 77002/832-867-9207
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This exhibition presents a project for an imagined Houston Biennial of contemporary art curated by participants in Raphael Rubinstein’s Virtual Curating course at the University of Houston School of Art. This virtual biennial includes 52 international artists working in a variety of mediums.
The title “Emergent Behavior” is borrowed from systems theory in which it is used to describe a phenomenon of independent parts working together, and not predictable on the basis of their properties. An emergent behavior can appear when a number of simple entities operate in an environment, forming more complex behaviors as a collective.
Unlike many biennial exhibitions that begin with a predetermined curatorial theme, the artists in this show were selected through an empirical process. Over the course of several months the curators refined a selection that includes established artists who have created significant new bodies of work within the last two years as well as younger recently emerged artists. Much of the work in the exhibition involves the scavenging of social detritus. This can be seen, for instance, in the drawings of Aurel Schmidt, the paintings of Mark Flood, and the videos of Cameron Jamie as well as in the work of seminal figures such as Mike Kelley and Jacques de la Villeglé. The exhibition also focuses groups of younger artists working in Iran and Houston.
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Shirin Sabahi’s work evolves from 8-mm films taken by Jan Edman (1928), a retired Swedish engineer who traveled to Iran nearly 15 times between 1966 and 1979. He visited different Iranian cities on behalf of a Swedish consulting and engineering company for the purpose of realizing industrial projects commissioned by various Iranian state-owned and private industries.
In the video installation Swede Home 1966/1973/1975/2009*, through cameraman’s gaze in his films and his vague remembrances of his trips thirty years after, Sabahi takes the audience back to Iran of the ‘60s and the ‘70s where she herself has no physical experience of. Activating this non-lived past by means of someone else’s recollections, Sabahi introduces Edman’s arbitrary narration to this history which her generation carries variety of it through different modes of transference; from parents and education to media.
In the photo series Untitled (00’00’’) still images of Edman’s films from Iran and Sweden are presented as double-exposed photographs. In these photographs, Edman’s visual documentation of the dual locations he lived and worked in points at the current condition of human mobility and displacement.
Shirin Sabahi (B. 1984, Tehran) received her BA in Industrial Design from Iran University of Science and Technology in 2007 and her MFA from Malmö Art Academy in 2009. Her work has been exhibited at various venues including HISK, Gent; Mercosur Biennial, Brazil; Pavilhão 28, Lisbon and rum46, Århus among others.
* Only one of the 2-channel video projections of Swede Home will be on display at Gallery No. 6.
Gallery No. 6
No 6, 18th st, Kheradmand-e Shomali, Tehran
March 5 – 10, 2010
Sat – Wed 15:00 – 19:00
Tel: +9821 88346029
