Of Wounds and Songs

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Hadis Vahidi, “A Gap Across The Fears,” 2020

oil on canvas (courtesy of the artist and VIVA Alliance, Vancouver)

Opening Reception: Thursday, May 8 at 7:30 PM for a talk with artists Mohsen Khalili and Arezou Moeini with a reception to follow.

Where there is power, there is resistance. Negotiating with power and probing the boundaries of imposed societal restrictions can foster creativity and lead to the development of new subjectivities. These ever-evolving resistive tensions form the basis of collective resilience; individuals forge supportive bonds and establish collective identities through their shared experience of subjugation and resistance. In societies under totalitarian rule, individuals and communities develop a multiplicity of ingenious ways to navigate and challenge imbalanced power relations. In the public sphere, resistance may take the form of defiance, protest, or subtle means of circumventing red tape. In the meantime, private spaces shielded from the surveillance of disciplinary power often become venues for self-expression where creativity and freedom of thought thrive.

Artists: Ali Ahadi, Anahita Norouzi, Arezou Moeini, Banafsheh Modaressi, Hadis Vahidi, Mohsen Khalili, Reyhan Yazdani, Shoora Majedian