Alibaba Conundrum
Ended
PeriodContemporary
StyleConceptualInstallationNew MediaSculptureMixed Media
RegionDiasporaInternationalCanadianLocal (Metro Vancouver)
About the exhibition
Alibaba Conundrum, an artistic group formed by Vancouver-based artists Ali Ahadi and Babak Golkar presents its debut exhibition at Griffin Art Projects. The exhibition critically examines how different ways of seeing, and subsequently those of saying, are manufactured today through the hegemony of the English language, globally conditioning the possibilities of thinking. It also explores how the link between the socio-economic structures of neoliberalism, Christian theology and the global institution of art (with its English grammar) maintains the contemporary habitus of thinking through…
Artists
Ali Ahadi, Babak Golkar
Getting there
Griffin Art Projects · 1174 Welch Street, North Vancouver, BC V7P 1B2Open in Maps →
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