Matilda Aslizadeh

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Matilda Aslizadeh
Born1976 (age 47–48)
Iran
NationalityCanadian
Education University of British Columbia (BFA), University of California, San Diego (MFA)
Known forvideo, photography, installation

Matilda Aslizadeh (born 1976) is an Iranian-born Canadian visual artist and educator. She was born in Iran and moved to Greece after the Iranian Revolution in 1979. A few years later, her family settled in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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Aslizadeh utilizes video, photography, and installation to rethink narrative structures such as the "classic fall and redemption narrative." [1] She has also artistically and pedagogically explored the expansion of media archeology into non-Western practices "that incorporate old and new immersive technologies to understand how they enable engagement with other cosmologies that continue to co-exist and co-evolve in our global context of accelerated capitalism." [2]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Installations

In a dark wood (2009)

In a dark wood, 2009, features an animated roulette-spin of B.C. trees, spaced as if they were Greek pillars. It is influenced by the turmoil of her youth and represents the artifacts of different ancient and living cultures that can be seen throughout her artistic practice. The two-channel work layers footage, "with short bursts of archival, black-and-white film footage culled from British Columbia's history" [10] intertwining geographical locations.

Moly and Kassandra (2018)

Moly and Kassandra, 2018 was curated by Grant Arnold and exhibited at the Vancouver Art Gallery as part of the 2020 Capture Photography Festival's Selected Exhibition Program. [11] [12] The installation features three operatic performances by individual female figures in front of open pit mines, mimicking an amphitheater. Arnold describes the work as building a "correlation between the terms in which abstract economic systems are represented and the physical extraction of raw materials by precisely interweaving statistical charts, images of monumental excavations into the surface of the earth and scenes of operatic divination." Using references from 1979 fashion and history, the work reflects on the shift from Keynesian to neoliberal economic policies, and the consequences of economy in late capitalism. The year that it was shown at Capture, artist and writer Helena Wadsley reread the work as having ties to a developing association with COVID-19's emptiness.

Award

2023 - Griffin Art Projects' 2023 North Shore Studio Art Residency Award Winner [13]

Artist collective

Aslizadeh is a founding member, along with several others, of the artist collective, Art Mamas. The Vancouver-based collective is made up of nine artists at different stages of both motherhood and their careers. It has met regularly since 2016 and seeks to facilitate a support system for artist caregivers while critically exploring the place of motherhood and care work within the dominant culture of art production. [14] This includes a 2021 residency at Access Gallery, in which the gallery space was activated as a laboratory and included other creative producers who are mothers/parents from the local community and beyond. Conversations and screenings featured artists Margaret Dragu, Jin-me Yoon, and Elizabeth MacKenzie. [15] The collective has also produced a 2023 publication titled art/mamas: Intermedial Conversations on Art, Motherhood and Caregiving. [16] [17]

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References

  1. ↑ Cachia, Amanda (2009). Diabolique. Regina, SK: Dunlop Art Gallery. p. 27. ISBN   978-1894882347.
  2. ↑ Sepulveda, Gabriela Aceves (September 2018). "Alternative Beginnings Towards other Histories of Immersive Arts and Technologies". Media-N: The Journal of the New Media Caucus. 14: 1–10. doi:10.21900/j.median.v14i1.57. hdl: 2142/112878 . S2CID   226891600 – via ResearchGate.
  3. ↑ "Resort September 20 – December 9, 2017". Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop’s University. Retrieved 2024-03-12.
  4. ↑ "BELIEVE 2018". Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto. Retrieved 2024-03-12.
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  9. ↑ "The Stalking of Absence (vis-á-vis Iran) | EXHIBITIONS | 東京画廊 + BTAP TOKYO GALLERY + BEIJING TOKYO ART PROJECTS". www.tokyo-gallery.com (in Japanese). Retrieved 2024-03-12.
  10. ↑ Dault, Gary Michael (November 21, 2009). "A cabinetmaker/joiner/artist in top form". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved March 24, 2022.
  11. ↑ "NEXT: Matilda Aslizadeh — Moly and Kassandra". www.vanartgallery.bc.ca. Retrieved 2024-03-12.
  12. ↑ "NEXT Matilda Aslizadeh: Moly and Kassandra - Capture Photography Festival". 2020-03-06. Retrieved 2024-03-12.
  13. ↑ "Matilda Aslizadeh". Griffin Art Projects. Retrieved 2024-04-13.
  14. ↑ Mushet, Mark (January 26, 2019). "A Vancouver collective for artists who juggle parenting helps counter the art world's tendency to sideline young mothers". Galleries West. Retrieved March 24, 2022.
  15. ↑ Mushet, Mark (May 10, 2019). "Art Mamas: Meet the Vancouver collective that creates community for mothers in the arts". CBC Exhibitionists. Retrieved March 22, 2022.
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  17. ↑ Belcher, Katie (2023). Art/mamas : intermedial conversations on art, motherhood and caregiving. Vancouver, BC: art/mamas. ISBN   9781777492212.
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