ARBITRARY LINES in Tehran
Nebras Hoveizavi, Sanaz Sohrabi, Sona Safaei Sooreh, Sara Abbasnejad, Anahita Hekmat, Jaleh Nesari and Negar Yaghmaeian
curated by Amirali Ghasemi
A Project by Parking Video Library & New Media Society
In collaboration with Aaran Projects
July 23 - August 2, 2021
exhibition catalogue in Persian
"Arbitrary Lines" is a project by the New Media Society and Parking Video Library, which gathers seven lens-based artists who live around the globe.
Their unique and research-based approaches question mass media coverage, representations of the other, and the silent process of marginalization via micro/macro narratives. In these works, the boundaries of intimate stories and personal spaces blur with the manifestation of sociopolitical concerns.
Using various resources from print media, found-footages, and testimonies in public archives to collage and 3D models inspired by advertisements, their multifaceted perspectives reflect fragmented realities and fables, simultaneously. Most importantly, their cameras dare to capture the obscure and elusive lines of segregation and normalization. Hence, the ambiguity within the imaginary allows them to bypass loops of Nostalgia and reveal the vulnerability of the system at the same time.
The "Arbitrary Lines" is about the existing lines; growing and fading, closing up and moving away-, all shaped by artists into personal, organic, entertaining, and frightening imagery: the ephemeral and delicate traces, captured in frames.
Installation views
Photos: Amirali Ghasemi
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