Exposure

Standing - Zohreh Zavareh

Resonance Biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon 2022 Exhibition from September 17 to November 19, 2022 Opening Saturday, September 17 at 11am.
Zohreh Zavareh creates both with words and words and in the making of images and forms. She borrowed from the theatre the method of scriptwriting, scenery and direction. Her eclectic practice finds its unity in the situation she chooses to present in each of her exhibitions. In space, all the elements are linked by a narrative, imagined by the artist to intrigue his audience, play with his feelings and his interpretation. The visitor thus plunges into a poetic and suspended universe, populated by objects — sometimes familiar, sometimes enigmatic — with reassuring signs or benevolent mantras. The volumes, often at the scale of the palm of our hand, come alive in contact with the gaze or gesture of the visitor. In this discreet and fragile universe, the artist puts into perspective the roles attributed to the living and the inert, to conscious beings and inanimate things.
_To hold down is a project that arises in the will to present an ambiguous and exotic condition where the objects are the characters and where the bodies blend into the scenery. The title suggests the effort to stand on one’s feet, to resist and also—in its figurative meaning—qualifies an assertion, a logical and valid reasoning, which can nevertheless tip into nonsense. It will therefore be a question of absurdity and truth, of physical strength and action, but also of mental state and meditative withdrawal. The works of the artist will compose a sensitive and delicate journey whose details are discovered with patience and attention and where the visitor is invited to pose and interact with the proposed scenario. The exhibition will be built as an intimate narrative where the setting in space will channel our feelings and our action will give life to unexpected characters.
Exhibition following the artist’s residency with the reverse slopes in 2021.

Biography of the artist:

Born in Tehran (Iran) in 1985, Zohreh Zavareh is the winner of the Hauts de Seine County Council Award at the 64th Montrouge Salon and the Southern Award for the 2021 Emerige Revelations Scholarship. She was selected for the Trame residency program at the Cité internationale des Arts. Between 2020 and 2022, she created her first and second solo exhibition at the Terrasse, art space in Nanterre and at the Ancien Evêché in Toulon. She participates in numerous group exhibitions, such as Comme un parfum d'aventure at the Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon et Or, Encens & Myrrhe at the Dohyang Lee gallery in Paris and Emotions are facts at the Nosbaum Reding gallery in Luxembourg. She participates in the creative residence in the Ecrins National Park with the other side of the slopes. His works have also been presented at the exhibition Un monde à votre image on the occasion of the 7th edition of the Emerige Revelations in Paris and the Hôtel des Arts in Toulon and at the 13th edition of the Ephemeral Arts in Marseille.