Ghazaleh Avarzamani
Particular Good Game For Self Punishment
April 15 to May 20, 2023
Galerie Nicolas Robert is proud to present Particular Good Game For Self Punishment, Ghazaleh Avarzamani’s first solo exhibition in Montreal. The exhibition confuses degrees of failure and success in order to unsettle hegemonic narratives. The failure here is addressing themes of politics, nationhood, religion, and morality. The exhibition speaks through the most personal and private of gestures and interventions. It is emblematic of a position/attitude of complacency. A nearly willful, blissful ignorance is created through a censoring of opinion, refracting through rose-coloured glasses. It is the curated news feeds and the blind eye; the double edge of hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil. Speaking to an undercurrent of inaction, the show draws attention to the hypocritic idea of security/safety and how it plays and fails. It challenges the normative and suggests a reformation of the status quo.
Ghazaleh Avarzamani (b. 1980, Tehran) lives and works between Toronto (ON) and Margate (UK) and holds an MFA from Central Saint Martins, London. She is currently a resident at the TKE (Tracey Emin) Studios in Margate, UK (2023) and recently presented at the Dhaka Art Summit in Bangladesh (2023) and forthcoming in India (2023). Avarzamani has presented solo exhibitions at the Aga Khan Museum, Toronto (2021), MOCA Toronto (2021), Koffler Centre of the Arts, Toronto (2019), Ab-Anbar Gallery, Tehran (2016), Asia House, London (2014), and Light Gallery, London (2013), and has participated in international residencies, including at the Delfina Foundation (2022) and SOMA Mexico City (2018). Her work is held in private and public collections, including the Art Gallery of Ontario, Rockefeller Center, Arsenal Contemporary, MOCA Toronto, TD Art Collection, and Red Mansion.
The artist would like to thank the Canada Council for the Arts for their support.
