Shaghayegh Cyrous with Kathryn Barulich and Christopher Squier (time/difference: Part I)

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Shaghayegh Cyrous with Kathryn Barulich and Christopher Squier (time/difference: Part I)

Dissolve interviews Shaghayegh Cyrous, curator of Eleven and a Half Hours(Aggregate Space Gallery), an exhibition focused on how Iranian and American residents carry on living despite varying levels of political turmoil that maintain a state of unrest. The collaboration between Dionne Lee and Shirin Abedinirad, two female artists in parallel political and geographical locations, showcases an attempt to resist the law of inertia by entering into a conversation and sharing experiences of discomfort in a sanctioned world.

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Footnotes on the Ostrich Feather Wedding Dress Project: Wearing the Beast

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Footnotes on the Ostrich Feather Wedding Dress Project: Wearing the Beast

Easton and Stevens invited thirteen artists to respond to an ostrich feather wedding dress as a material and symbol: its textures, terrors, and broader connotations. In the process, the project became an experiment in a symbol’s potential to shift its meaning across contexts, uses, and purposes and to become newly defined, enigmatic, or irregular through the transformations of the artists involved.

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