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Franz Kaka is proud to announce the opening of Sister Seeds, Azadeh Elmizadeh’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. Working from a tradition of Persian mythologies, Elmizadeh’s translucent surfaces foreground the mutability of narrative and its resistance to fixity and rigid meaning making through language. The exhibition further extends Elmizadeh’s investigation in to the ways in which contingency, uncertainty, and translation can be used as strategies to undermine prescribed cultural boundaries.
Of particular interest within Sister Seeds are the figures Arenavak and Sanghavak, two female characters who appear across myriad creation myths and folk stories. Often portrayed as sisters, the two are closely associated with ideas of fertility and wisdom, with one representing water and the other soil. In Persian mythology, there is a close connection between water, wisdom, trees and the capacity for speech, and it has been speculated that these figures reappear as narrators within later…
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Franz Kaka is proud to announce the opening of Sister Seeds, Azadeh Elmizadeh’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. Working from a tradition of Persian mythologies, Elmizadeh’s translucent surfaces foreground the mutability of narrative and its resistance to fixity and rigid meaning making through language. The exhibition further extends Elmizadeh’s investigation in to the ways in which contingency, uncertainty, and translation can be used as strategies to undermine prescribed cultural boundaries.
Of particular interest within Sister Seeds are the figures Arenavak and Sanghavak, two female characters who appear across myriad creation myths and folk stories. Often portrayed as sisters, the two are closely associated with ideas of fertility and wisdom, with one representing water and the other soil. In Persian mythology, there is a close connection between water, wisdom, trees and the capacity for speech, and it has been speculated that these figures reappear as narrators within later…
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