Xaviera Simmons creates photographs, installations and multimedia works that use landscape as a base on which to layer complicated characters and open-ended, non-linear narratives. Using an amalgamation of histories and memories as communicated over time through text and images, Simmons creates new characters that depart from and engage with the histories locked within [...]
Salt Lake Art Center - Utah
Curated by Micol Hebron
By Cara Despain
Using the shrewdly crafted writing of Hồ Xuân Hương, a revered 19th-century Vietnamese poetess, as a springboard, “Doublespeak” aims to examine female contemporary artists through tropes used historically by women to communicate: double entendre, coding and metaphor. In patriarchal/oppressive societies, women used such means to [...]
Central Utah Art Center
By Cara Despain
Continuing her ongoing investigations of collective versus individual identity, social psychology, the symbolic gestures and emblems that identify belief structures, as well as the architecture associated with these ideologies, Pooneh Maghazehe presented IYIA EHI’ AHYI, 1649-a site-specific performance at the Central Utah Art Center (CUAC) January 14, 2011. Focused on [...]
