Once at Present

02/01/2020

“In conjunction with Southern Exposure’s exhibition Where do you want ghosts to reside?, made up of artwork informed by forgotten Islamic myths, artists Morehshin Allahyari and Shirin Fahimi loose the bonds of the Mission District gallery to stage a one-night performance at Counterpulse. In Breaching Towards Other Futures, Allahyari and Fahimi channel a jinn from Middle Eastern mythology, Aisha Qandisha, known as the “opener,” and use Ilm al-raml (a form of geomancy, or divination with sand) to both tell the future and open doors to other futures—particularly ones not dominated by white, colonial or patriarchal concerns.”

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01/27/2020

Coming up on February 7th: Performance by Morehshin Allahyari and Shirin Fahimi; part of Southern Exposure's exhibition Where do you want ghosts to reside?; curated by Azin Seraj Az Zin and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Faluda Islam

Morehshin Allahyari and Shirin Fahimi channel the revelation of a jinn figure Aisha Qandisha and Ilm al-raml (Geomancy – science of the sand) as their methods for telling and opening doors towards other futures. Aisha Qandisha is one of the most honored and fearsome jinn in Islam. She is known as ...

01/27/2020

Still time to catch SECA (Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art) of SFMOMA awards exhibition with Sahar Khoury's celebrated works- up through April 12th. https://www.sfmoma.org/exhibition/2019-seca-art-award/

01/17/2020

KQED's Sarah Hotchkiss 's reviews HOFREH, curated by Minoosh Zomorodinia for Peephole Cinema, with works by Tara Goudarzi, Nooshin Naficy, Setareh Hosseini, Majid Ziaee, Razieh Goudarzi and Atefeh Khas

The six videos in Peephole Cinema's 'Hofreh' tell beautifully composed stories of identity, gender and human relationships to nature.

01/17/2020

Solo Exhibition of Pantea Karimis textile work will be opening this Sunday in the exhibition The Forgotten Women of Science at the San Jose Quilts and Textiles. Jan 19-March 1, 2020 with a panel discussion scheduled on February 23.

You are invited to the Opening Reception for Inside Out: Seeing Through Clothing Shirley Cunningham , Marianne Lettieri: Never Ending Thread Pantea Karimi: The Forgotten Women of Science 3:00PM - 4:00PM Members Opening Reception 4:00 - 6:00PM Public Reception Celebrate the artis

06/06/2019

Taravat Talepasand and Taraneh Hemami have been fierce advocates for representing Iran and Iranian people in all their complexity in their artwork. Talepasand (denim jacket), whose work was part of the Once at Present exhibit sponsored by the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies, reconsiders the various ideological assumptions that index Iranian identity, state power, and gender in order to consider how the body and the image come to signify and rebel against normative notions of Iranian subjectivity via paintings, drawings, sculptures, and installations. Talepasand also believes we must take the name "Iran" and put it in contexts other than just negative news headlines. 📸: Afra's Corner