Alibaba Conundrum
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Griffin Art Projects 1174 Welch Street, North Vancouver, British Columbia V7P 1B2
Alibaba Conundrum, "15 Commandments (The Origin of the Word)," 2022,
inkjet on photo paper. Courtesy of Alibaba Conundrum.
Opening reception: February 10, 6-8PM
Alibaba Conundrum, an artist collective formed by Vancouver-based artists Ali Ahadi and Babak Golkar, presents its debut exhibition at Griffin Art Projects.
The Alibaba Conundrum project considers how the English language and its enduring global impact directly but quietly conditions everyday experience and how it surreptitiously shapes individual subjects and citizens by posing as the 'norm.’ In their work, Alibaba Conundrum also explores the English language as a universal structure. This project critically examines how different ways of seeing and processes of producing subjectivities through media and via cybernetics occur under the hegemony of the English language. The project further explores how socio-economic structures exert themselves through image-based platforms—with their underlying English grammar—and how these adhere to modes of late capitalism within contemporary life.
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