Too Far, So Close

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Violet Modaressi, "Objects of Desire," 2016

mixed media, 8" x 10"

"Too Far, So Close" curated by Hamidreza Jadid and co-presented in partnership with Abdulah S Al-Ghoul 

"Too Far, So Close" will open in July, 2019. The exhibition will include works by: Sharareh Khosravani,  Kambiz Sharif, Amir Kamand, Sheida Soleimani, Violet Modaresi and Hamidreza Jadid. 

The concerns of artists from crisis-struck regions are intimately connected with the political upheavals and economic crises of their respective homelands; and they instinctively and inevitably make an effort to express these concerns.

In recent years, many such artists have emigrated from their native countries, and have reflected on their political (and politicized) identities, and the presentation of those identities in contexts and spaces that are foreign to them. 

This has come under pressure from the Eurocentric art market--a market that functions according to its buyers’ exigencies and the so called “global outlook,” rather than an intention to support, protect, and preserve multiple identities and diverse worldviews. In the realm of western art, such identities that fall “outside the global outlook” are viewed, critiqued, and prosecuted through an isolationist lens.

The artists whose work is gathered here tackle the systems of power inside and outside their homelands, both of which render them isolated and exoticized.