UAL: Wimbledon College of Art
Against Static Exhibition 15-23 March 2018
Curated by Tania Kovats
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Introducing opposite terms simultaneously presents the challenge of restriction and freedom. ‘Against static’ was a reflection of the contradiction concept between places where I had an experience of living in. I aim to refer to my memory collection of different moments of my life as an immigrant; in order to intrepid the contrasting components between completely different situations. Hosting the geometrical drawings from an ancient culture in a contemporary metropolis, Toronto (where I lived for few years) can be considered a dialectical notion contributing to an underground urban fabric. My proposal was a physical drawing on a wall based on Toronto’s underground path as a vast pedestrian network. I had injected new elements of Iranian geometrical floor plans of different public programs like mosques, bathhouses, squares, and etc. into the path floor-plan. The world’s largest pedestrian mall in form of a maze, it includes a series of nodes and axes which circulate people between different destinations around the city. This network is a symbol of movement here against the idea of gathering and also stillness in new additional elements of cultural places. Another element that I added as a layer of nostalgia was an image projection of one those cultural spaces in Iran.
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