Event Details
Setareh Shahbazi Art Exhibit -Why Not Bazar
Running through May 1
Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, 653 Paseo Nuevo, Santa Barbara
Event Description
The Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum presents the work of Setareh Shahbazi entitled "Why Not Bazar"
Curated by Regine Basha
Iranian-born, Berlin-based Setareh Shahbazi’s exhibition Why Not Bazar examines intersections and collisions between different cultural locations and their traditions. Shahbazi culls from images found in her daily life and surroundings. Pictures from different sources like magazines, newspapers, postcards, billboards, and advertisements as well as pictures that she takes on location, create the basis for her two-and three-dimensional collages. As the artist has often traveled between Western Europe and the Middle East, her image collection naturally combines scenes from different East/West cultures—though her treatment of these transitions are subtle and elusive.
Using a highly colored palette as a kind of lens, Shahbazi’s iconic images act as filters for what could be a charged psychological state, a collective memory, a mediated news item, or just a fleeting banal scene. With deft spatial and compositional concern for a given architecture, Shahbazi employs these images as actors on a stage, various media including flat ink-jet prints, installations placards, platforms, and theatrical tableaus.
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Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum
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Contact: Lauren Mermel
Phone: 805.966.5373 ext104
Email: sbcaf@sbcaf.org
Web site: http://www.sbcaf.org
