Exhibition
Morehshin Allahyari- See who sees the unknown
22 Oct 2016 – 7 Jan 2017
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 14:00 – 19:00
- Thursday
- 14:00 – 19:00
- Friday
- 14:00 – 19:00
Address
- 1030 Metropolitan Avenue
- New York
New York - 11211
- United States
She who saw all things in the broad-boned earth and beyond
and knew what was to be known
In her city, there was no ‘outside’, yet doors remained open and unlocked
About
SHE WHO SEES THE UNKNOWN is a new body of work from Morehshin Allahyari on Digital Colonialism and ‘re-Figuring’ as a Feminism and activism practice using 3D scanners and 3D printers as her tools of investigation. Researching dark goddesses, monstrous, and djinn female figures of Middle-Eastern origin, Allahyari devises a narrative through practices of magic and poetic-speculative storytelling, re-appropriation of traditional mythologies, collaging, meshing, scanning, and archiving. The exhibition launches concurrently with the start of the artist’s one year research residency at Eyebeam where Allahyari will continue her investigation through public events, creating figures, speculative archival and writing methods and ceremonial 3D printing/scanning exercises.
In order to move beyond a simple binary view of West vs Islam / tech-future vs religious-history, Allahyari looks to forgotten, misrepresented, and suppressed histories and narratives. If the Jihadists express their power by performatively destroying the past and flattening the earth and the power of tech-utopian westerners over heritage is expressed through digital technologies that allow them to reclaim and colonize objects before and after they are destroyed, Allahyari’s project offers a third method to re-situate power and remark history and ownership.
