Homa Khosravi and Marzieh Mosavarzadeh | Ominous Chaos

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Homa Khosravi, "Bedtime Stories," 2022

dimensions variable. Image courtesy of artist.

Opening Reception: Saturday, April 8, 5 PM – 7 PM (remarks at 6 PM)

Ominous Chaos questions notions of the grotesque and uncanny in relation to the body. Ominous Chaos revisits the body as a subject of regulation and recoil through humor and playfulness using a variety of mediums, including video works, soft sculptures, printmaking, embroideries and illustrations. Ominous Chaos will explore the relationship between labor and artistic creation, utilizing the body as a mediator in the unresolved questions of autonomy and docility.

Homa Khosravi, (b. Tehran, Iran) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Vancouver. She received her MFA from Simon Fraser University and BFA in Painting from the Tehran University of Art. Her work touches on surrealism, abstraction and worldbuilding with various “more than human” creatures through a multitude of mediums, including painting, video and sculpture installation. Khosravi explores the human body and its connection to memory, fantasy and the uncanny, highlighting a foundation of humor found within. Khosravi investigates experiences of her body and mind in relation to her environment, vis à vis the process of making the artworks, the choice of colours, and materiality within the installation.

Marzieh Mosavarzadeh is a PhD candidate in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy at The University of British Columbia, Canada, specializing in art education. Her arts-based educational research explores artful, pedagogical, and speculative ways of making-place through the artistic practices of walking, image-making, and writing. She holds both her MFA and BFA in visual arts. Marzieh is grateful to live and work on the ancestral, traditional, and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples–Sḵwxw̱ú7mesh (Squamish), Səlíh lwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil- Waututh), and xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam)Nations.