Online Viewing Room
Dialogue with the Other
April 8 - 19 2022
Group Exhibition
In the last few decades, the ongoing migration of people from Iran has increasingly foregrounded intractable philosophical questions concerning the complexities of “displacement” and “place”, inherent to which are notions of “national identity” and “home”. Neatly distanced academic reflections often reduce the Iranian migration story to measurable motivations and statistics, and disturbingly, do little to check associations between émigrés, their often invisible ties to Iran, and the liminal space we live in regardless of our geography. In this exhibition, Ali Nassir aims to propose an alternative view, based on the belief that personal narrative and self-reflexive dialogue regarding art-making hold the potential to produce a deeper philosophical insight into the increasingly diasporic human condition, which is needed both to undo malicious stereotyping and to validate the contributions made by diasporic identities to the Iranian art scene. The exhibition engages five emerging Iranian artists living and working in three different countries, Donya H. Aalipour (b. 1995), Mahdad Alizadeh (b. 1993), Pegah Keshmirshekan (b. 1996), Iman Rezai (b. 1981), and M. Smart (b. 1998). Just as artworks act as invitations to enter into difficult, heterotopic spaces, the exhibition invites the audience into a self-reflective space that enacts the ambivalence and uncertainty at the beginning of a dialogue. The aim of this exhibition is not to offer neatly packaged questions or answers, but to open the spectator to an experience of the dialogical fissures, gaps, silences and contradictions that reveal the ambivalence of diaspora experiences in the moment of “being unspoken”.
Donya H. Aalipour, Untitled, oil on canvas, 198x154 cm, 2021
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Donya H. Aalipour, Untitled, oil on canvas, 198x154 cm, 2021
Donya H. Aalipour, Untitled, oil on canvas, 40x30 cm, 2022
Donya H. Aalipour, Untitled, oil on canvas, 40x30 cm, 2022
Donya H. Aalipour, Untitled, oil on canvas, 40x30 cm, 2022
Donya H. Aalipour, Untitled, oil on canvas, 40x30 cm, 2022
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Donya H. Aalipour, Untitled, oil on paper, 68.5x49 cm, 2022
Donya H. Aalipour, Untitled, oil on paper, 68.5x49 cm, 2022
Donya H. Aalipour, Untitled, oil on paper, 68.5x49 cm, 2022
Mahdad Alizadeh, Untitled, glazed clay, 22x27x30 cm, 2022
Mahdad Alizadeh, O Superman, glazed clay, 28x28x22 cm, 2022
Mahdad Alizadeh, Pompaj, clay, 12x63x34 cm, 2019
Mahdad Alizadeh, Untitled, clay, 9x26x10 cm, 2022
Mahdad Alizadeh, Five Ways to Get to You, clay, 9x65x10 cm each, dimentions vary overall, 2019
Mehdi Nemati, What Looks Good Today May Not Look Good Tomorrow, acrylic and spray paint on canvas, 135x200 cm, 2021
Mehdi Nemati, Always Use Two-Player Mode, acrylic and spray paint on canvas, 155x225 cm, 2021
Mehdi Nemati, Tired and Unfinished at the Studio, watercolor, acrylic and spray paint on paperboard, 50x70 cm, 2020
Mehdi Nemati, A Rapid Progression of Disappointing Events, watercolor, acrylic and spray paint on paperboard, 50x70 cm, 2021
Mehdi Nemati, The Relation Between Art and Lust, watercolor, acrylic and spray paint on paperboard, 50x70 cm, 2020
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Pegah Keshmirshekan, Imaginary Homeland, digital print, 5 editions, 100x70 cm, 2020-2021
Iman Rezai, Tear of the Beloved, mixed media on wood panel, 140x110 cm, 2022
Iman Rezai, Relatively Nasty Parrot, mixed media on wood panel, 140x110 cm, 2022
Iman Rezai, Plume Plucked, mixed media on wood panel, 140x110 cm, 2022
Iman Rezai, Spill Love, mixed media on wood panel, 140x110 cm, 2022
Iman Rezai, Wool Whine, mixed media on wood panel, 140x110 cm, 2022
Iman Rezai, Vulgar, mixed media on wood panel, 140x110 cm, 2022