Arbitrary Lines

curated by Amirali Ghasemi
Nebras Hoveizavi | Sanaz Sohrabi | Sona Safaei Sooreh

From December 8 - 13 you still have the chance to see part 1 of this exhibition.

On December 16 we will open the second part of the exhibition with four more artists, Sara Abbasnejad | Anahita Hekmat | Jaleh Nesari | Negar Yaghmaeian. We will again open the second part of the exhibition with a zoom discussion with the curator and all the artists. We will keep you updated.

“Arbitrary Lines”

is a project by Parking Video Library and New Media So- ciety - Tehran, which features seven lens-based artists who live around the globe. Their unique approaches and research-based practices, one by one, question the role of mass media and its representations of the ‘other’. Also, the silent process of marginalization via micro/macro narratives where the boundaries of intimate stories and personal spaces blur with the manifestations of the socio- political landscape.

Using various resources from print media, found-footage and testimonials in public archives, to collages and 3D models inspired by advertisements, their multifaceted perspectives reflect the fragmented realities and fables, simultaneously. Most importantly, their cameras boldly capture the abstract and elusive lines of segregation & its normalization. Hence, the ambiguity within those imageries allow them to bypass the cycles of nostalgia and reveal the vulnerability of any state at the same time.