Paradise in a Square

In conjunction with Unsolicited Exhibition Promises to Keep, apexart presents Paradise in a Square.

Fari Shams’ Paradise in a Square examines the ways in which humans, in their search for meaning, have attempted to organize the world, and how this attempt has shaped their way of understanding it.

The video is the result of a trip to the Zoo in Cologne, Germany, but by looking into its history in relation to exploration, the print medium, collective memory, science, celebrity culture, surveillance and gaming, a genealogy of virtual identity emerges that is rooted in scientific categories. (Pierre Von-Ow 2017)

As the world becomes more global, classifications become more obvious. This paradox, a product of a transnational, global, international world, is the subject of Fari Shams’ Paradise in a Square. Drawing analogies with the Zoo, the film examines the relationship between the observer and the observed, as well as the author and the subject, to rethink simplified categorizations in the production of meaning. She has been invited to show the film and generate a discussion about the nationalistic, gendered, and disciplinary classifications relevant to this exhibition.

Run time 17 minutes, followed by a talk with Fari Shams.

Fari Shams is an Iranian born British artist living and working in Düsseldorf and London. Her multidisciplinary practice involves issues concerning the production of knowledge, and the implications of isolating subjects and objects under observation for the purpose of understanding them. Her works are a result of a daily experience which bears witness to the human need for structural systems of organization and classification and the inherent inadequacy and incompleteness that characterizes them. Her installations have been shown recently in Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Kunstraum München, Maschinenhaus, Essen, and Museum Glaskasten, Marl, Germany.

For more information visit: https://apexart.org/events/paradise-in-a-square.php











When: Fri., Jun. 16, 2017 at 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Where: apexart
291 Church St.
212-431-5270
Price: Free
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In conjunction with Unsolicited Exhibition Promises to Keep, apexart presents Paradise in a Square.

Fari Shams’ Paradise in a Square examines the ways in which humans, in their search for meaning, have attempted to organize the world, and how this attempt has shaped their way of understanding it.

The video is the result of a trip to the Zoo in Cologne, Germany, but by looking into its history in relation to exploration, the print medium, collective memory, science, celebrity culture, surveillance and gaming, a genealogy of virtual identity emerges that is rooted in scientific categories. (Pierre Von-Ow 2017)

As the world becomes more global, classifications become more obvious. This paradox, a product of a transnational, global, international world, is the subject of Fari Shams’ Paradise in a Square. Drawing analogies with the Zoo, the film examines the relationship between the observer and the observed, as well as the author and the subject, to rethink simplified categorizations in the production of meaning. She has been invited to show the film and generate a discussion about the nationalistic, gendered, and disciplinary classifications relevant to this exhibition.

Run time 17 minutes, followed by a talk with Fari Shams.

Fari Shams is an Iranian born British artist living and working in Düsseldorf and London. Her multidisciplinary practice involves issues concerning the production of knowledge, and the implications of isolating subjects and objects under observation for the purpose of understanding them. Her works are a result of a daily experience which bears witness to the human need for structural systems of organization and classification and the inherent inadequacy and incompleteness that characterizes them. Her installations have been shown recently in Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Kunstraum München, Maschinenhaus, Essen, and Museum Glaskasten, Marl, Germany.

For more information visit: https://apexart.org/events/paradise-in-a-square.php

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