Ja Ja be Curatorial Statement
Zoya Honarmand - Maryam Taghavi
Ja Ja be is a curatorial project Activates That connection has space for entre artists based in Iran and artists based elsewhere. Throughout the course of the project, participants from Each rental work together in order to track one's Reviews another local Proposals In Their own. For this iteration - the first iteration of Ja Ja be - seven artists and one theorist / translator inhabit, through a series of conversations, the space entre Tehran and Toronto As They responds to the theme of distance. Ultimately this space Lends Itself to contemplating, Utilizing and elaborating on the act of translation, extended literal and metaphorical Both across dimensions. This exhibition laboratorial AIMS to Investigate the dynamics, tensions and potentials of dual agency in production to relinquish the privileging of process over output, and to enable a more immediate interaction entre different artistic discourses and find Points of Contact entre em.
The Tehran exhibition of works from Maggie Consists Flynn dialogue in Peyman Shafieezadeh, Francisco Fernando Granados in dialogue with Keyvan Mohtadi, Manolo Lugo in dialogue with Neda Razavipour and in dialogue with Gein Wong Simin Keramati. Unpack gallery in Toronto Will exhibit the Tehran-based works in the months of July and August.
Zoya Honarmand + Maryam Taghavi