Instigator: Shahram Entekhabi & Ghazaleh Seidabadi
May 8th - June 6th, 2021
OPENING RECEPTION SATURDAY MAY 8TH 6-9 pm
Proyectos Raúl Zamudio and The Empty Circle are pleased to present an exhibition of Shahram Entekhabi & Ghazaleh Seidabadi consisting of videos, textiles, and a series of 18 photo-based works. An eponymous video entails, in the words of the artists themselves, "a narrative about Iranian women. Women who stand between the shackles of the past and the definition of a woman today in the free world. Awareness of women's rights and their demand for participation in society in Iran coincided with the women's liberation movements around the world. Despite their efforts, these feminist movements have not become a continuum; because they were not supported by the community and as a result, they could not achieve the desired results over time."
Other works in the exhibition include a series of 18 photo based-works derived from the artists’ science-fiction photo-novella about life on another planet named Goolcheh-Abad inhabited by four one-eyed creatures. Although the science-fiction tale can be appreciated as a work of literature, like other authors of the same genre including George Orwell, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Phillip K. Dick who often use science fiction to address the human condition, Entekhabi & Seidabadi equally infuse their fantastical narrative with allegories about what it means to politically negotiate daily life and the larger social world we all live in and ostensibly share regardless of nationality.
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Proyectos Raúl Zamudio/ The Empty Circle
499 3rd Ave. Brooklyn, NY 112 15
646-373-1767
www.emptycircelspace.com