Exhibition: Tina Azari's "The Girl"
Oct 8, 2012 to Oct 12, 2012
Third-year visual arts student Tina Azari presents The Girl, a series of black and white photographs exploring ideas of female individuality in different cultures
The artist enhances the photos with Persian writing to explore the female body in a more traditional point of view. Thematically her text addresses one’s body becoming a part of one’s own individuality.
In the recent years Azari’s artistic focus has been on gender and society. The artist perceive sgender as a structure of social classification which is mainly based on the physical appearance. Her project The Girl determines the category of external identity, based on her experience toward self- identity.
Gallery Hours:
Monday - Friday,
10:30am -4:00pm
Gallery closing reception: October 12 5 to 7pm
Admission is free and all are welcome.
IMAGE: "Dahanat ra miboyand" (2012, 20"x30" photo/lithography)
| Location: | Special Projects Gallery, Goldfarb Centre for Fine Art |
| Sponsor: | Department of Visual Art and Art History, Faculty of Fine Arts |
| Web Site | http://www.yorku.ca/finearts/visa/events |
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