Video Installation of Selected Works from 2010 to 2020
One-day exhibition by Ghazel
New Media Projects – Outdoor Project
Friday-December 18, 2020 / 2-6 pm
Us, in summary
Me, in summary
Lockdown, in summary
Here, in summary
Tree, in summary
The World, in summary
Us, in summary
New Media Projects will be hosting a one-day exhibition by Ghazel with an installation of selected videos: “ARCHIVES 2/ 2010-2020: Summaries” on Friday, Dec 18th from 2 to 6 pm. The project will be shown outdoors. Please keep a social distance and wear masks.
About Ghazel:
“My work has obsessively questioned otherness, contemporary migrations, uprootedness, belonging, hybridity, social issues and the effects of War. Often self-portraits, going from the Me series to the Tree (which represents me), it is always directly inspired by my hybrid life, my multiple imperfect identities and the social work I have been doing since the mid-90s with delinquent youngsters, street children, migrants and asylum seekers. I believe art can only be a strategy of resistance.”
Ghazel was born in 1966 in Tehran.
She received her B.F.A. and M.F.A. from L’Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Nîmes (France). She also received a B.A. in Film Studies from Paul Valéry University in Montpellier. She participated in many international biennials, including the 50th International Exhibition Venice Biennial (Clandestini) in 2003, the 8th Havana Biennial (El Arte con la Vida) in 2003, the 3rd Tirana Biennial (Sweet Taboos, Episode 2: To lose without being a Loser) in 2005, the 15th Biennale of Sydney (Zones of Contact) in 2006, and the 7th Sharjah Biennial (Belonging) in 2005. Her works are in many public collections, including the Musée National d’art Moderne, Centre Pompidou (Paris), MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig (Vienna), the Musée national de l’histoire de l’immigration (Paris), the Aïshti Foundation (Beirut), and the Bic Collection (Paris). Her WANTED posters are shown permanently in the Musée National de l’histoire de l’immigration (Paris). Her recent solo shows are “Black Hole” (2019/Azad Gallery, Tehran), Dyslexia” (2018/ Hinterland Gallery, Vienna), and “Mismappings” (2017/ ISCP Gallery, New York). In April 2019, she was in the 13th Havana Biennial.
No. 3, Araabi 3 Alley, Kheradmand-e Shomali St., Karimkhan Ave., Tehran
