NYAB Event - Sanaz Mazinani “Frames of the Visible”

Sanaz Mazinani “Frames of the Visible”

Taymour Grahne Gallery

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Taymour Grahne Gallery unravels normalized representations of conflict with Frames of the Visible, a solo exhibition of photographic work by the Iranian-born, Canada- and California-based artist Sanaz Mazinani.
Mazinani has long been concerned with the dissociation that occurs between the experience of an event and its photographic record. Utilizing news media images, the artist challenges the relationship between perception and representation, and explores concepts such as censorship, scale, and the body as a site of action or violence.
Adapting images relating to the destabilizing effects of war mined from the Internet, Mazinani creates large photographic collages that re-frame emotionally charged visuals, dissecting and puncturing our normative experience of the original source. Through a process-intensive method of creating original patterns by sequentially pairing, repeating, mirroring, and multiplying source material, she strives to make sense of the ways in which such media images define our relationship to war.
Mazinani’s use of geometric patterns goes beyond symbolizing Islamic ornamentation; it speaks to the culturally specific ideology of transfiguration, or more generally, the transitory nature of being. Understanding the radical ways in which two people can perceive the same object with differing complexity is at the core of her investigation, as is the power of repetition and reproducibility of photographic images to construct and define history. The repetitive patterning creates a certain distance from which the works can reflect on popular media’s representation of warfare and communicate the complex and interwoven relationships that demonstrate the nature of modern existence in a globalized world.