Group Exhibition: So Far, So Close
September 6 @ 6:00 pm - September 22 @ 5:00 pm
Opening reception and artist talk: Friday, Sept 6, 6-9 PM. Artists talk moderated by Aida Shahghasemi will be held on the day of the opening reception at 7:30-9:00 PM. Closing Reception: Saturday, Sept 21, 3-5 PM
The So Far, So Close exhibition explores the complicated experience of displacement
from the motherland through themes of space, distance, and memory by three Iranian female artists – Katayoun Amjadi, Ziba Rajabi and Shirin Ghoraishi – who reside outside of Iran by choice or by force.
Even though these artists have resided so far from their homeland for years, they feel so close to it, and distance has not diminished their love and care for it. Through the Persian language and Iranian culture, a part of their existence is defined by where they are from, regardless of where they take these temporal bodies. Meanwhile, they embrace and value their borderless life journey and cherish experiences that they have had as a result of a deliberate choice to live abroad and the opportunity to explore the unknown.
This work is funded in part by MHC with money from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund that was created with the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008.
