Only For My Shadow
When
10 July 2015 -
22 August 2015
Location
4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art
181-187 Hay St, Haymarket
Exhibition Opening:
Thursday 9 July 2015
6–8pm
4A is pleased to present dual solo exhibitions featuring new and commissioned work by two exciting artists, Indonesian-Australian Tintin Wulia and Iranian-born Nasim Nasr.
Only For My Shadow is the first solo exhibition in Australia by Iranian-born and Adelaide-based emerging artist Nasim Nasr. The exhibition combines photography, video and sculptural works to address biographical and social concerns in contemporary society. The works engage with issues of censorship, the transience of identity, and civil and social turbulences.
Only For My Shadow brings together a selection of Nasr’s recent works as well as a new video work, Ashob: Unrest (2015) produced by 4A, which takes as its focus the recital of a passage from twentieth century Persian author Sadegh Hedayat’s seminal text, The Blind Owl (19437). Nasr will also present the photographic series, Muteness (2011), sculptural works Slow Burn (2013), and the video What To Do? (2012) which continues the artist’s study of traditional cultural forms from the Middle East.
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Top image: Left: Nasim Nasr, Muteness 1-4 (2011), digital prints, 80 x 80 cm each. Installation view, 4A Centre for Contemporary Art. Courtesy the artist and GAGPROJECTS Adelaide/Berlin. Right: Nasim Nasr, Ashob: Unrest (2015), single-channel video, sound, subtitles. Installation view, 4A Centre for Contemporary Art. Courtesy the artist and GAGPROJECTS Adelaide/Berlin. This work was produced with assistance from 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. Image: Justin Malinowski
