Slavs and Tatars: Mirrors for Princes

January 16 - March 19,2016

An exhibition of sculpture and installation by the artist collective Slavs and Tatars. The collective operates between the "area east of the former Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China" and creates work that is highly political, commenting on religion, sovereignty, and economics.

Opening: January 15, 2016 | 7-9 pm

Artist talk: February 03, 2016 | 12-1 pm
Slavs and Tatars cofounder Payam Sharifi gives a gallery talk

Conversation: February 17, 2016 | 12-1 pm
Emran El-Badawi, program director and assistant professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Houston, will discuss Islamic contexts of the “Mirrors for Princes” genre of medieval advice literature that inspired the works on view in the exhibition.

Panel: March 10, 2016 | 6-8 pm
Panel discussion with UH faculty members Natilee Harren, Auritro Majumder, Dina Al-Sowayel, and Roberto Tejada.

Blaffer Art Museum 120 University of Houston Fine Arts Building
Houston, TX 77204-4018
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