Dot by Dot Like a Baby Gazelle
La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse is proud to present the exhibition Dot by dot like a baby gazelle from March 3 to April 7, 2022. This exhibition, curated by Mitra Fakhrashrafi, will present the work of M茅lika Hashemi, Shirin Fahimi with Morehshin Allahyari, Iman Lahroussi and Nazlie Nazgol.
La Centrale galerie Powerhouse will host several activities in conjunction with the exhibition; the event "From Mia Khalifa to Bousbir" with Nashwa Lina Khan, a conversation with Shirin Fahimi, an AR filter launch with the artist M茅lika Hashemi and a finissage.*
In 鈥淎in El Karma鈥�, a song originally written and performed in the early 1900s, poet and singer Aissa Djarmouni connects the act of tattooing to the North African land he wrote of, describing the puncturing of the skin, 鈥淸d]ot by dot like a baby gazelle grazing in the plain of the Olive River鈥�. The lasting popularity of this lyric links the once common practice of tattooing to the present; reinvigorating a tradition that, due to the criminalizing of nomadic life and growing stigma, is no longer widely performed in the region.
Dot by dot like a baby gazelle draws on tattoo cultures from across Iran and the Maghreb as an entry point to explore nation-building, gender, diaspora, and the future鈥攅specially other futures which demand the rejection of binaries, static histories, and erasure. Artists Shirin Fahimi with Morehshin Allahyari, M茅lika Hashemi, Iman Lahroussi, and Nazlie Nazgol use performance, geomency, film, installation, and archiving to explore the body as site of storytelling that captures what changes over time what endures, and the many transformations made along the way. Evoking the 鈥榯raditional鈥� and the reimagined, the exhibition presents an open-ended archive documenting tattooing and other oftentimes relegated practices of Iran, the Maghreb, and their diasporas while inviting viewers to partake in these living traditions.
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La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse is proud to present the exhibition Dot by dot like a baby gazelle from March 3 to April 7, 2022. This exhibition, curated by Mitra Fakhrashrafi, will present the work of M茅lika Hashemi, Shirin Fahimi with Morehshin Allahyari, Iman Lahroussi and Nazlie Nazgol.
La Centrale galerie Powerhouse will host several activities in conjunction with the exhibition; the event "From Mia Khalifa to Bousbir" with Nashwa Lina Khan, a conversation with Shirin Fahimi, an AR filter launch with the artist M茅lika Hashemi and a finissage.*
In 鈥淎in El Karma鈥�, a song originally written and performed in the early 1900s, poet and singer Aissa Djarmouni connects the act of tattooing to the North African land he wrote of, describing the puncturing of the skin, 鈥淸d]ot by dot like a baby gazelle grazing in the plain of the Olive River鈥�. The lasting popularity of this lyric links the once common practice of tattooing to the present; reinvigorating a tradition that, due to the criminalizing of nomadic life and growing stigma, is no longer widely performed in the region.
Dot by dot like a baby gazelle draws on tattoo cultures from across Iran and the Maghreb as an entry point to explore nation-building, gender, diaspora, and the future鈥攅specially other futures which demand the rejection of binaries, static histories, and erasure. Artists Shirin Fahimi with Morehshin Allahyari, M茅lika Hashemi, Iman Lahroussi, and Nazlie Nazgol use performance, geomency, film, installation, and archiving to explore the body as site of storytelling that captures what changes over time what endures, and the many transformations made along the way. Evoking the 鈥榯raditional鈥� and the reimagined, the exhibition presents an open-ended archive documenting tattooing and other oftentimes relegated practices of Iran, the Maghreb, and their diasporas while inviting viewers to partake in these living traditions.
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