Maryam Jafri - Automatic Negative Thought
The Contemporary Art Gallery is excited to present Automatic Negative Thought, a major solo exhibition of the work of Copenhagen and New York based artist Maryam Jafri
Date/Time: Aug 31 2019, 12:00 am to 6:00 pm
Vancouver, Contemporary Art Gallery | Event calendar555 Nelson St
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Cost: Free
Extending across both of CAG’s two gallery spaces, the exhibition will include the presentation of three recent series of sculptural works alongside a new video work co-commissioned by CAG and Taxispalais Kunsthalle Tirol in Innsbruck, Austria.
Informed by an investigative and interdisciplinary process, Jafri queries the cultural and visual representations of history, politics and our contemporary economy. This exhibition takes as its central interrogation our contemporary culture’s fixation on “wellness” and self-care, and suggests that these trends represent a predictable response to an age of economic dispossession and social fragmentation. The artist explores the ways the body is increasingly experienced as a site of anxiety-fueled narcissism and self-surveillance that is politically and economically produced.
Maryam Jafri
Maryam Jafri is :an artist working across media and genres – video, sculpture, photography, and performance. She holds a BA in English & American Literature from Brown University, an MA from NYU/Tisch School of The Arts and is a graduate of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. Her work has been the focus of recent solo exhibitions at ICA Los Angeles (2019); Van Abbemuseum in Eindoven (2016) and the Kunsthalle Basel (2015), and included in the Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art (2018); Sao Paulo Biennial (2016) and the Belgian Pavilion at the Venice Biennial (2015).
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