| Jane Lombard Gallery is pleased to present the group exhibition Speaking Power to (Post) Truth, curated by writer and curator Sara Raza, recently the Guggenheim UBS MAP Curator for the Middle East and North Africa. The exhibition brings together a constellation of five contemporary international artists Ergin Çavuşoğlu, James Clar, Mounir Fatmi, Nadia Kaabi-Linke, and Shahpour Pouyan (CRF 2016). Their work comes together to reveal a complex pattern of inquiry that seeks to explore deep associations with human consciousness and (post) truth, referencing important historical, literary, social, and political issues. Shahpour Pouyan’s series Memory Drawings (2015-16) explore the symbolic relationship between the preservation of architecture and the articulation of images as relayed by his own memory. Encompassing a series of 39 drawings Pouyan memorializes the tomb of the 11th century Murqanas dome of a mausoleum near Mosul, Iraq that was destroyed by ISIS as part of a systematic attack on architecture and heritage. February 9th, 3:30-4:30PM, Pepe Karmel, professor of art history, New York University & Artist Shahpour Pouyan in conversation. Showing through February 16, 2019. |
Shahpour Pouyan at Jane Lombard Gallery
