Hamzianpour & Kia is pleased to present Minefield Playground, a two-person show by Fereydoun Ave and Sam Samiee, on view October 29 - November 26, 2022. This is the first joint exhibition for the two artists. The show consists of two series by Ave - Warrior’s Rest and Two Alphabets - installed by Samiee and in dialogue with the latter’s own site-specific works, which are created in a short time span in the days before the exhibition opening.

Warrior’s Rest is part of Fereydoun Ave’s ongoing Warrior series, which has continually problematized the relationship between the warrior archetype and its historical, literary, and mythological iterations. All along, Ave has rigorously questioned and subverted the definitions of masculinity embodied by the warrior, cultivating a tense relationship between the macho characters in the works and the decidedly non-macho elements that surround them.