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pressed like a breath collapsing into a sigh

Fri, Mar 18

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Heaven Gallery

pressed like a breath collapsing into a sigh​ presents a collection of work by Chicago-based artists Farnaz Khosh-Sirat and Hope Wang, who look to their built environments as spatial productions of memory, power, and desire.

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pressed like a breath collapsing into a sigh
pressed like a breath collapsing into a sigh

Time & Location

Mar 18, 2022, 7:00 PM

Heaven Gallery , 1550 N Milwaukee Ave #2, Chicago, IL 60622, USA

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On view March 18th - May 15th, 2022

Opening Reception: Friday, March 18th 7-11PM

With artists: t, and Farnaz Khosh-SiraHope Wang

Recording of the virtual artist talk here

​pressed like a breath collapsing into a sigh​ presents a collection of work by Chicago-based artists Farnaz Khosh-Sirat and Hope Wang, who look to their built environments as spatial productions of memory, power, and desire. Drawing on constructed nostalgia to navigate the dissonance between loss and belonging, both artists employ architectural patterns to evoke intimate realities of place.

By referencing hyper-specific architectural imagery and reconfiguring fragments of it, Khosh-Sirat and Wang produce “false” copies and traces of everyday life. These palimpsests take postures of longing that ​are not just decorative, but also serve primary functions as coded languages of their own. Khosh-Sirat utilises ​girih​, geometric patterns in Persian textiles and architecture, in her atmospheric sculptural installations. In an act devoted to mimicry that…

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