Grasping fragments, or otherwise calculating distance

January 24 - March 06,2020

Grasping fragments, or otherwise calculating distance includes the work of four artists—Nassem Navab, Bahareh Khoshooee, Mahsa Biglow, and Sareh Imani—who employ photography, video, performance, and installation to investigate issues surrounding women’s rights in Iran, diasporic experience, censorship, technology, war, and dislocation of the self. Employing techniques such as distortion, glitch, layering, splitting, and hybridity, their work speaks to the particular qualities of new media art, as well as the ways in which digital technology can both bridge and intensify these distances. In this exhibition, the politics of such distances—geographical, cultural, bodily, and linguistic—are ever-present, as each artist considers the actions and implications that arise when one is made to move between cultures, languages, media, and landscapes. Grasping fragments, or otherwise calculating distance is organized by Celia Shaheen, BFA/BA candidate in Studio Art and Art History, with Center Space Project.  This exhibition is supported, in part, by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at The University of Texas at Austin and by 29 individual donors who contributed to a HornRaiser campaign in fall 2019.

Opening: January 24, 2020 | 6-8 pm

UT Visual Arts Center (VAC) 23rd and Trinity Streets
Austin, TX 78712
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