Opening at Southern Exposure January 17th 2020
The title of this exhibition is verse lifted from Etel Adnan’s poem, XLIV from the book, The Arab Apocalypse and like Adnan’s writing, the exhibition will show the work of artists who look critically at the past, skeptically at the future and whose work explores different possibilities within the present. As co-curators, we seek to bring to the forefront South, South West Asian and North African (SASWANA) women artists who use contemporary interdisciplinary mediums to challenge historical and contemporary political narratives. Urgent issues around immigration, borders, ecology and nuclear development are addressed through Islamic mythology, ritual, performance and storytelling. In addition Southern Exposure will be partnering with CounterPulse Theater in the Tenderloin district to show Morehshin Allahyari and Shirin Fahimi’s performance Breaching Towards Other Futures.
The exhibition will feature the work of Morehshin Allahyari, Heba Y. Amin, Anum Awan, Shirin Fahimi, Arshia Fatima Haq and Umber Majeed.