Arghavan Khosravi: Black Rain
When:
Thursday, Aug 03, 2023 11:00a -
Sunday, Oct 22, 2023 5:00p
Thursday, Aug 03, 2023 11:00a -
Sunday, Oct 22, 2023 5:00p
Where:
Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University
415 South Street
Waltham, Massachusetts 02453
Admission:
FREE
Hosted by:
Categories:
Art, University
Event website:
https://www.brandeis.edu/rose/exhibitions/2023/arghavan-khosravi.html
Arghavan Khosravi: Black Rain, the artist’s first significant museum survey, presents a comprehensive display of Khosravi’s meteoric trajectory from her student days, when she “doodled” on the pages of her Iranian passport, through her bold experimentations with multipaneled reliefs, to her monumental sculptures produced for this exhibition.
Known for weaving Persian motifs with surreal iconography, Khosravi deftly blends East and West, past and present, religious and secular, reality and fantasy, aligning the artist’s deeply felt internal schisms and sense of paradox with the political strife of the present moment. According to the artist, “contradiction" is one word that sums up her work.
The artist’s life experiences—as a young woman in Iran, as an Iranian immigrant in the United States, and, most recently, as an Iranian exile inspired by the Zan. Zendegi. Azadi. (“Woman, Life, Freedom”) protests—shape her artistic development. From reflections on misogynistic repression to creative articulations of self-empowerment, Arghavan Khosravi: Black Rain follows the arc of a prolific artist and her persistent quest for freedom.
