Project 13

You can still see the "Walking" exhibition until May 6th.
Please Check out the link here.
https://artspaces.kunstmatrix.com/en/exhibition/4784916/walking

Muslims in Muharram month commemorate the mourning custom of the death of Imam Husayn Shiaa’s leader. In khorramabad women walk barefoot in one street at forty stations (altars) and lit the candles.
Minoosh Zomorodinia
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One day, someone will find my fossil and tell a story about me. This story will continue until I become a myth.I believe "Footprints" is The most important traces left are curiosity, ambition, the joy of discovering the unseen, and human walking.
The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about 23.03 to 5.333 million years ago. The first human footprints were discovered during this period.
Arezu Zargar

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In a continued exploration of the interstitial and meaning of domestic objects I made Melting Chairs to explore that which is between two places, spaces, times, emotions. The chairs are reimagined waste that connote a precarity of place by being between two planes—something disappearing, not able to fully see or touch. I think of the stories my family brought with them, and what was left behind and what was taken—part of that story exists only as traces left behind cut wooden with a former home. What is given to me from my family’s past is only partly furniture there—one can’t see the full picture, or can’t understand it fully.


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Hazy Borders
Just as people are influenced by their histories and present societies, buildings also take cues from their surroundings, mimicking familiar architecture. Though their walls confine them visually, pipes and ducts and wires travel in and out, making their immaterial borders hazy. Like people, they are unique and also collective.


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I wasn’t sure what to write
Honestly I hate doing it!
The words are oppressive
Do we really need statements?

I thought of the excess, the fog, the dream world
I thought of Costco
The very first days of the exile
Drowsiness
I learn the words
Lethargy, torpor, apathy
On my verbal advantage

But I still can’t write
Then the other night
I watched this movie;
Andre asks
“Don’t you see that comfort can be dangerous?”
He tells the story
Of Lady Hatfield
The rich woman who starved
Eating only chickens
“See, I honestly believe
that we're all like Lady Hatfield now.
We’re having a lovely, comfortable time
with our electric blankets and our chicken
And meanwhile we're starving because
we're so cut off from contact with reality
that we're not getting any real sustenance”

It’s still bu****it, I know!
But I really tried
To cut the crap!baharak .

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“Creature Called Woman”
The “creature called Woman” refers to most women whose society with predetermined standards have turned them away from their real character and converted them to a stranger creature over time. By the way, many women despite all the borders and red lines that society has created for them, try not to lose hope and take steps toward the success path while they transform into an individual with a new identity. Such as those plants in abandoned places which not only sprout from corners of wall or through a concrete floor without no watering or enough light, but also they tend to have peaceful connection with the world surrounding them. These photos are deliberately vertical and characters almost have balanced positions by one leg. It wants to show that although there is no place to rest and comfort in this world, you must resolutely continue the way you believe.
Medium: Digital Photography sh.kadkani

"I walk to match your speed" : 

 The video's explores memories, dreams, repetition and moments from the past we have conflicts with; yet we cannot get rid of.


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The change of place creates two different times that run parallel to each other.
The first time is the one that you know from your previous place and that continues to exist unchanged in your memory as you have previously recorded.
And then there is the time that arises in the present place.
Both times are available in the current location, although they occur one after the other. They exist in the mind and the present place at the same time.
'' My Two Brothers" and "Beine hoch Amerika" are an attempt to express this duality and alienation in the emigration identity. r.e.z.a .

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Live Instagram in Farsi.
Join us this coming Saturday April the 3rd at 10:00am PST, 9:30pm Tehran time, in the conversation with Project13 Artists: Hamed Jaberha, Shima Tajbakhsh, Reza Reza
Hosted by Mehregan Pezeshki
The talk will be live on our Instagram page:

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Legs are human tools for mobility and our mind is the engine. Imaging if the engine is running but the vehicle keeps staying in one location. During the COVID-19 lockdown, many experienced the stillness of time and life. Not being able to go to work, school, gym or participate in any social activity created a strong sense of immobility for all. On a personal level, I was dealing with foot surgeries and was not able to use my feet for most of the year. From Running, to walking, to being fixed in one location was one of my greatest challenges. As I’m getting back on my feet and looking into the end of the COVID-19 lockdown tunnel I think about the power of mind and how I can keep running in the state of tranquility.

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We are thrilled to share a review from our first exhibition by Dr. Roja Najafi!

Clicking through Nostalgia
Exhibition Review: “When People Decide to End Themselves”
By Roja Najafi, Ph.D. Art Historian and Curator
https://project13exhibition.medium.com/clicking-through-nostalgia-9a238cb632bd

Clicking through Nostalgia Exhibition Review: “When People Decide to End Themselves”

I am time, You are space

Spacetime can be used to visualize relativistic effects, such as why different observers perceive differently where and when events occur. In the holistic viewpoint of relativity theory, concepts such as length, mass and time take on a much more nebulous aspect than they do in the apparently rigid reality of our everyday world. However, what relativity takes away with one hand, it gives back in the form of new and truly fundamental unusual concepts.

“I am time, You are space” is a series of videos questioning the realm of the illusory nature of our realities. They rotate and swirl in a spiral pattern to show different viewpoints while the subject remains the same. It takes the observer to a journey, walking through different realities from one view point to another, that is originally derived from one singular reality, captured in one specific moment. In this video the sky could be the sea and the birds could be fishes. A rigid reality shifts to multiple ones and Illusion plays a big role in our interpretation of reality. The silence of the movements emphasize on the imagery and walk the observer’s eyes throughout the unity of the concept to show the observer could be the observant. nouri.art .

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Karimi’s multimedia works explore an ancient and enduring fascination with the Moon in science, culture and language, while simultaneously celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Lunar Mission, and the Walking on the Moon. In these works, Karimi has appropriated ancient diagrams and images from archival materials including archival images of Apollo 11, and early diagrams by the 11th century Persian astronomer Abu-Rayhan Biruni.
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"Be the Water"
Living beings are always on the move. They are responsive to their surroundings, drawn to growth, and expansion. There are no completely steady creatures and everything always has a desire to move. But death poses a quest on movement and stagnation. Death seems to be the last struggle for life. It carries a secret in its core. That secret lies in the meaning of walking. The death walks from being to not-being. A move from the known toward the unknown. A move toward decay and return to nature. Being is redirected through the door of death.


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Walk in the Future of my Past World
by Shaghayegh Cyrous
2021, Video, 06m00s

There is general agreement among philosophers that time is continuous, and we do not experience it as stopping and starting. It has an intrinsic direction or order as we all agree that events progress from past to present to future. However, It might have a different perception for me as a refugee. Time is a non-consistent concept. Everything changed, but my memory froze when I left my homeland. I can remember the “time” when I lived there ten years ago with the absence of all memories now in my present. How can I feel, taste, smell, touch, and see in the future of my past? Can my mom walk me through the present and make me experience it as exactly happening for her? Is my feeling the same? Is my experience authentic or unreal? Is time tensed or tenseless? Is the present instant or a duration? Do the past, and the future exist? How about the future of my past?

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https://artspaces.kunstmatrix.com/en/exhibition/4784916/walking
Please check out our exhibition "Walking" here.
For a better view please use your desktop.
The show will be up till April 13th.

13. Minoosh Zomorodinia is an Iranian-born interdisciplinary artist who makes visible the emotional and
psychological reflections of her mind's eye inspired by nature. She employs walking as a catalyst to
reference the power of technology as a colonial structure while negotiating boundaries of lands.
Zomorodinia earned her MFA in new genres from the San Francisco Art Institute, and holds a Masters
degree in Graphic Design and BA in Photography from Azad University in Tehran. She serves on Southern Exposures’s curatorial council, Berkeley Art Center Program Committee, and a Board Member of Women Eco Artists Dialog. She has received several awards, and residences and has exhibited locally and internationally. Her work is featured in SF Chronicle, Hyperallergic, Sf Weekly, KQED and many more. She lives and works in the Bay Area.

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12. Arezu Zargar
After completing her M.Sc of geology, Arezu Zargar decided to take on a new experience in her life by learning art and combining it with what she had learned in the ontology of her field. She first started creating works of art with ceramics, but quickly turned to experimenting with other media such as installation, photography and environmental art. She graduated with a M.A in handicrafts to complete the process of creating art. In addition, she gained skills and attitudes in filmmaking as a producer in a number of documentaries and short movies of her husband. In her view, art has no boundaries for any artist, and it is enough to trust our inner sense to create a work of art, which requires accurate knowledge. For her, this happens through travel and experience among different people.

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11. Shirin Towfiq
I am a conceptual artist of Iranian descent that works in textile, photography, installation, performance, and socially engaged art. My work addresses cultural, communicative, and interpersonal relationships. I have received a BA in Practice of Art from UC Berkeley and more recently an MFA from Stanford University. I draw from my experiences of being a second generation immigrant, and use traditional crafts to recontextualize commonly held ideas surrounding family, memory, comfort, and self-constructed identity.
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10. Shima Taj Bakhsh is an Iranian interdisciplinary artist based in Long Beach, California. She will receive her Master of Fine Arts at the California State University Long Beach in spring 2021.
The interaction between architecture and bodies, buildings, and their infrastructures such as pipes, and vents, and their circulation systems are a source of conflict in her installations. She explores space as a cultural dimension and in relation to identity, where the vulnerability of mass-produced ready-made walls and the collapse of the facade turns a permanent physical site into a gateway to non-place. Over the course of four years, the body of her work has shifted from questioning the materiality of a place to the complex narratives that they imply.
At the heart of her specific research concentration lies a tendency to create a space for the emergence and reemergence of narratives from a female perspective by conducting oral history documentation with people outside of the hierarchy of power. The resulting installation of her work, however, tends to complicate the formation of the narrative. She uses history, memory, and processes of remembering as tools for studying the public and private representation of an individual.

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9. BSisters.
Behnaz and Baharak Khaleghi are multimedia artists and collaborators originating from Iran who currently live in the Bay Area where Behnaz pursued her MFA at the University of California Berkeley, and Baharak pursued hers at San Jose State University. In their practice, deploying an array of mediums, they seek alternative ways of making feminist art in a Middle Eastern context, usually paying attention to the potentials of humor and pleasure while simultaneously embracing the aesthetics of disgust and push against taste to develop new categories for beauty; what is pleasurable and libidinous for women as defined by women, offensive to male taste and its ownership.
Behnaz's work has been acclaimed and chosen among Bay Area emerging artists as part of the Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards program and has been exhibited in spaces such as the De Young Museum and the Berkeley Art Museum. Baharak's work has been exhibited in spaces such as the De Young Museum and Root Division Gallery in San Francisco.

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8. I am Azarakhsh Shafieikadkani. I was born in 1987 in Mashhad,Iran. I hold an MA in graphic design and officially I began my artistic activity with this major, but I have been a freelance photographer and multidisciplinary artist since 2010. I also work as a lecturer of photography. I have professional experience in various photography fields such as street photography, aerial, portrait, advertising, but in recent years my research focused on conceptual photography. My latest works reflect the relation between human and nature which I tend to explore through this medium.

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7. Rojin Shafiei (b.1993) is an Iranian interdisciplinary artist/filmmaker living and working in Toronto. In her works, art is a vehicle for the translation of cultural messages and is used to
present diverse feminine subjectivities. She presents these themes both through a literal documentary style and as symbols. Rojin received her BFA in Intermedia from Concordia University in 2017 and has screened her work internationally in various festivals such as les Rendez-Vous du Cinéma Québécois (Canada), Festival International de Vidéo de Casablanca (Morocco), Limited Access Video Festival (Tehran) and Instant Vidéo Numériques et Poétiques (France). In 2019 she was the Venice Lands Art Prize candidate in Treviso, Italy and she won the grand prize of
Startupfest/Artupfest section in July 2018 for her piece "I wait for the time.

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6. Reza Reza was born in Tehran in 1983 and moved to Germany in 2002 to complete technical studies.
2008 he turned to art. After a study trip to Florence in 2010 and a deeper studies of art and art history,
especially in painting, he started actively creating and presenting art works.
With the establishment of the "Kunstraum auf Zeit", he started working as Freelance Artist in 2016.
Numerous solo and group exhibitions followed, such as the solo exhibition "The Invisible Mask" in the Brandenburg Niederlausitz Museum /Germany or participation in group exhibitions "9Positions" in the Industrial Museum Knappenrode "Germany and other exhibitions.
He is personally less interested in conventional ways, but prefers to find his own way himself, whether in art or in his real life. His art is often about topics such as identity and the processing of social or political events, while many personal memories and experiences flow into the work.
He takes up the topics and often processes them in absurd and confusing forms, with a mostly surreal atmosphere.

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5. Mehregan Pezeshki is an Iranian American multidisciplinary artist. Her artwork is often autobiographical, unraveling the traumatic memories of her youth while growing up in Iran.
Pezeshki uses photography to uncover hidden behavior which affect our daily lives. She employs an unconventional angle that challenges the viewers to step out of their comfort zone and observe human behaviors from a new perspective.
Pezeshki holds a BA in Historical Conservation and Preservation from the Cultural heritage University of Tehran and a BFA from the University of Texas at Austin. She currently continuing her MFA at California Institutes of The Arts..

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4. Mobina Nouri is an Iranian-American Multi-disciplinary artist based in San Francisco whose practice reflects her personal history as a female immigrant. Nouri received her BA in Stage Design and MA in Product Design from Tehran Art University, Iran and her PhD in Creativity Science from City University London, UK. Working across a variety of media, the artist mines her country’s tradition of storytelling, often turning to Persia’s philosophies and mysticism to contemplate and reconsider the complexities which she bears witness to in the contemporary moment. Explorations of the body, the self, gender, and unity are central to her practice which she approaches through a reimagining of linguistic and social schemas.

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3. Pantea Karimi is an Iranian-American multidisciplinary artist, researcher and educator based in San Jose, California. Her work investigates the intersection of art, science and history through the study and interpretation of medieval Persian, Arab and early modern European scientific manuscripts. She creates two-dimensional works and interactive installations using silkscreen and digital illustration techniques and prints.
Her perspective and art practice have been deeply influenced by her upbringing in post- revolutionary Iran, and by moves to two countries, firstly the UK and then later, the US. In her work, she combines threads from her life experience with conceptual and visual interpretations from her research.
Karimi has exhibited internationally across a range of solo, group and traveling exhibitions in Iran, Algeria, Germany, Croatia, Mexico, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Her work is included in public collections including Stanford University, UC Davis, and UC San Francisco, and has been featured in local and international publications. She has conducted research at several institutions including the British Library, the Institute Archives & Special Collections at MIT, and the Marsh’s Library in Ireland. Karimi is the recipient of the 2020 Holding the Moment Art Award, the 2019 City of San Jose Arts and Cultural Exchange Grant, the 2019 Silicon Valley Artist Laureates Award, and the 2017 Kala Fellowship-Residency Award.
Pantea Karimi is an Adjunct Faculty in the Departments of Digital Media and Studio Art at the College of San Mateo and Cabrillo College. She holds two Master’s Degrees in graphic design (Iran) and fine arts (UK & US).

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