How to Invest in Iran | The Surveillance of the Quiet

Aileen Bahmanipour & Geneviève Marois-Lefebvre

How to Invest In Iran and The Surveillance of the Quiet.

Running December 10, 2022 to January 27, 2023.

Opening Reception December 9th, 7pm to 9pm.

Exhibiting artists Aileen Bahmanipour and Geneviève Marois-Lefebvre explore the nuances of image construction through their individual and equally dynamic art practices while also critically addressing themes of feminism, diasporic identities, the surveillance society, and the politics of location and identity. Through their equally individual and dynamic art practices, both Bahmanipour and Marois-Lefebvre explore the multifaceted and intangible nature of our shared reality rooted in individual perspectives by questioning the role of representational images that act as symbols of a dictated reality.

The opening of both exhibits will also feature a panel conversation from 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm that features art historian Kaveh Rafie, artist Nazim Pirhadi, and exhibiting artist Aileen Bahmanipour. This panel will revolve around topics of the diasporic Iranian experience, feminist art and resistance, and the current political climate in Iran. In addition, the panel event will act as a celebratory event of Aileen Bahmanipour's artist publication entitled "How To Invest In Iran?"

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About the Artists

Aileen Bahmanipour is an Iranian-Canadian visual artist. She is currently living and working on the unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples, known as Vancouver, and in Bella Coola Valley, the traditional territory of Nuxalk people. She has received her BFA in Painting from the Tehran University of Art and her MFA in Visual arts from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. She is currently a member of the Continuing Studies faculty at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design.

Bahmanipour has exhibited her works internationally as well as in Canada, including her solo and group exhibitions at the GlogauAIR (Berlin), Banff Centre for the Arts, Alternator Centre for the Contemporary Arts (Kelowna), Vancouver’s grunt gallery, Two Rivers Gallery (Prince George), and Aaran Art gallery (Tehran).

She is the recipient of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council grant in 2017, the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Artist Fund in 2019, the Early Career Development grant from BC Arts Council in 2019, the Linda and Richard Singleton Endowment Fund in 2022, the Canada Council for the Arts and BC Arts Council’s grants in 2021and 2022.

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Geneviève Marois-Lefebvre creates collage, photo and video installations, stealthy interventions in the public space as well as experimental short films. She is interested in the role of narrative in human relationships as well as in the construction of identity, and individual and collective memory. She is particularly interested in the areas where reality and imagination meet; somewhere between the beauty and the ugliness. She lives and works in the village of Frelighsburg, Quebec. Her projects The Events (2015) and The surveillance of the quiet (2021) have received support from The Arts and letters council of Quebec, and her works have been presented several times during residencies, exhibitions and screenings in Canada, France, Scotland, United States and Spain.

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