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Ghadirian was inspired to make work reflecting what she saw as the duality and contradiction of life. Her Qajar Series (1998-2001) consists of small studio portraits of women dressed in the nineteenth-century Qajar style. Many of the women photographed are Ghadirian’s friends and family. The backgrounds of these portraits resemble those found in photographic studios [...]
Offical Website: www.alfredojaar.net Through installations, photographs, and community-based projects, Jaar explores the public’s desensitization to images and the limitations of art to represent events such as genocides, epidemics, and famines. Jaar’s work bears witness to military conflicts, political corruption, and imbalances of power between industrialized and developing nations. “I strongly believe in the power of [...]
Tate Modern 12 October 2010 – 2 May 2011 Official Website: www.tate.org.uk Ai Weiwei’s Sunflower Seeds challenges our first impressions: what you see is not what you see, and what you see is not what it means. The sculptural installation is made up of what appear to be millions of sunflower seed husks, apparently identical [...]
Team Gallery, NY September 9th – October 23rd 2010 Official Website: www.teamgal.com and www.santiago-sierra.com Los Penetrados (The Penetrated) is a 45-minute film in eight acts. The film was originally shot on October 12 2008, Día de la Raza, or the Day of the Race, which is the Spanish holiday commemorating Columbus’ discovery of the Americas. [...]
ROSÂNGELA RENNÓ Ring 24 November – 15 January 2010 www.pharosart.org www.rosangelarenno.com.br/obras The Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art is pleased to present works by artist Rosângela Rennó in an exhibition titled Ring. The exhibition is part of the Brazilian Culture Month 2009, which is organised by the Pharos Arts Foundation in cooperation with the Brazilian Embassy [...]
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: Portraits of gay men and lesbians in the military Jeff Sheng’s series of portraits of gay men and lesbians serving in the military, all of them in uniform and with their faces obscured in some way — by a hand, a door frame or by darkness. Mr. Sheng has photographed 40 [...]
On 27 March 2010 the Mary Boone Gallery will open at its Chelsea location “The Globe Shrinks”, a new video installation by Barbara Kruger. “The Globe Shrinks” (2010) is a multiple channel video installation that continues Kruger’s engagement with the kindness and brutality of the everyday, the collision of declaration and doubt, the duet of [...]
10th Biennale de Lyon: The Spectacle of the Everyday Palas Por Pistolas (Pistols Into Spades). 2008 50 shovels made of metal from 1,527 destroyed weappons from people of Culiacán, Mexico. The shovels are the outcome of a programme launched by the Mexican government – at the instigation of the artist – for “handing in” illegal [...]
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