Tehran,
No. 2 | Roshan Manesh Alley | Khaqani St. | Enghelab St. | Tehran | Iran
9 September - 6 October 2016
Ab-Anbar presents “At 11:57 am Wednesday 23 October 2013”, the second solo exhibition of Iranian artist Reza Aramesh at the gallery, showcasing a new body of work, exploring the role that images of violence play in the contemporary moment, articulated from the vantage point of a single event: On this date, October 23, 2013, it was reported by media that in the southern province of Helmand, Afghanistan, a young couple that had eloped together was lured to the woman’s family home, and were later found decapitated, in what authorities believed was a honor killing. The horizon of this event, though marginal in the history of contemporary conflict, is a very telling personal story that addresses the central position of the body in the receiving end of violence: The reduction of the body politic to a community of mere bodies evaporates the distinction between our presence as subjects and simple biological existence.
In the second part of the exhibition, Reza Aramesh presents a series of pottery vases, crafted by hand and fired in a traditional kiln in Iran, in the manner of the Greek narrative urns. They enable us to navigate the cross-references between classical art and the violence of the contemporary moment as a strategy to dislocate political history from the grand Western narrative and emplace it in larger framework of knowledge about the real.
In the second part of the exhibition, Reza Aramesh presents a series of pottery vases, crafted by hand and fired in a traditional kiln in Iran, in the manner of the Greek narrative urns. They enable us to navigate the cross-references between classical art and the violence of the contemporary moment as a strategy to dislocate political history from the grand Western narrative and emplace it in larger framework of knowledge about the real.
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