I RAN Home

The Fridge DC is pleased to present I RAN Home (In America). Join us for the opening reception and meet the artists!

Iranian artists have become players in the national and international contemporary art scene, but too often, this genre is tied to politics. In reality, Iranian-American artists are multi-faceted with different and conflicting identities and influences. Their work may be affected by political realities, but not decided by them. In I RAN Home (In America), these diverse influences unite in profoundly personal artworks which strive to achieve acceptance and understanding from all viewers.

Straight from the Beijing Biennale, works from New York based POONEH MAGHAZEHE's (http://www.poonehspeaks.com) It's What's for Dinner series feature raw meat branded with an Islamic pattern used in architectural detailing throughout Iran. Maghazehe says, "Utilizing a custom made branding iron inscribed with this pattern, an act of re-contextualization implies the historic representation of cattle branding, offers a metaphor for migration, references mass marketing, and alludes to branding identities."

Originally from the DC Metro area, New York based ERIC ROBERT PARNES (http://www.ericrobertparnes.com) appropriates contemporary images and intentionally revises them to reveal the ways in which they have driven war, religion and fashion through time.

Locally-based and Iranian-born, HADIEH SHAFIE (http://www.hadiehshafie.com) explores the fundamental aspects of process, repetition and time throughout her works, which take direct inspiration from the whirling dervish of Sufism.

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The Fridge DC will host a series of public programming events in conjunction with the exhibition:

Bastani & Branding
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=183628628145&ref=ts

Youth Poetry Night
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=152376852538

I RAN I DANCE
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=152576173919
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Date:	Thursday, November 5, 2009
Time:	7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location:	The Fridge DC
Street:	Rear Alley, 516 8th Street SE
City/Town:	Washington, DC