Category: Presentations

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Juxtapose Art Fair

Paadmaan projects participation in Juxtapose Art Fair 2023.

A review by Kunsten.nu

The Iranian artist Foad Alijani from Paadmaan projects will, in collaboration with Danish Signe Vad, host a picnic on the roof of Godsbanen. The aim is to discuss artistic strategies and ways of exploring climate issues – for example in projects such as the Office of Emergency. Foad Alijani regularly hosts these kinds of picnics in Tehran, all of which share a focus on art and ecology, and especially how artists can collaborate with climate scientists. The excursion is open to the public, but with a limit of 7-8 participants to create a framework for informal dialogue.

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Bon-gah Art Book Fair

/// Paadmaan projects at third edition of Bon-Gah Art Book Fair٫ Nov 2020.

Initial release of project Return + presenting selected past projects poster

Initiated in 2018, Bon-gah Art Book Fair is an annual three-day event of artists’ publication. Third edition of BABF will take place in November 2020 in Tehran. Including a wide range of artists and collectives, curators, publishers, institutions, galleries, periodicals, zines and printed ephemera, the event is free and open to the public. With a commitment to diversity and representation, the fair will serve as a meeting place for an extended community of publishers, artists and book enthusiasts, as well as a site for dialogue and exchange around all facets of arts publishing. The fair will also host a diverse range of talks, discussions, book launches and workshops. Bon-gah is an artist-run platform and an independent publisher.

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operation.wtf

/// Paamaan projects at operation.wtf

Featuring works by Foad Alijani, Sepideh Majidi, Niloofar Naderi, and Alma Sinai

Nima Bahrehmand’s operation.wtf (2019) was a multichannel video installation with sound, presented in Hero Ready, the 2019 MFA thesis exhibition at the University of Texas at Austin. The exhibition addressed questions of subjectivity, agency, power, and how art directs or holds attention.

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Farsi Art Gallery Tour (2)

Farsi Art Gallery Tour (Toronto)
Art Gallery of Hamilton (AGH)
Presentation: Sepideh Dashti
Program manager: Melika Hashemi
Theme: Familiar
Thursday, June 20, 2019

Our goal in organizing Farsi tours is to rejuvenate intersectionality within and beyond institutional settings by critically examining prevailing narratives and advocating for the use of our native language in public settings.

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Sepideh Dashti is an MFA student at Western University in London, Ontario. Her artistic practice is connected to and inseparable from her cultural identity. She has found her voice, allowing her to communicate how it feels to be a female diasporic woman from Iran living in and responding to western culture. In her quest to assert her individual expression and artistic agency, she turns the lens on family, belief structures, and women’s place in society in both Iran and Canada. Using video, photography, and performance, her artwork is one of disclosure; she draws from her personal experiences to question social expectations and the self, impacting the process of identity formation.

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Farsi Art Gallery Tour (1)

Farsi Art Gallery Tour (Toronto)
Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO)
Presentation: Sepideh Dashti
Program manager: Melika Hashemi
Theme: Women of Today
Friday, May 24, 2019

Our aim with facilitating Farsi tours is to renew intersectionality in and beyond various institutional settings by critiquing prominent narratives and promoting the use of our mother tongue in public spaces. Our guide, Sepideh Dashti, will introduce us to works made primarily by Contemporary Indigenous Women artists on view at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Titled Zanāné Emrooz or Women of Today, this tour is designed to open perspectives and discourse surrounding art today and the women who create it.

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Sepideh Dashti is an MFA student at Western University in London, Ontario. Her artistic practice is connected to and inseparable from her cultural identity. She has found her voice, allowing her to communicate how it feels to be a female diasporic woman from Iran living in and responding to western culture. In her quest to assert her individual expression and artistic agency, she turns the lens on family, belief structures, and women’s place in society in both Iran and Canada. Using video, photography, and performance, her artwork is one of disclosure; she draws from her personal experiences to question social expectations and the self, impacting the process of identity formation.