Art Past Present with Aneesa Shami

Hosted by Farrah Karapetian and Joes Segal.

Join us for the second virtual Art Past Present with Aneesa Shami, Los Angeles-based textile artist and researcher whose work has been exhibited nationally in galleries and museums. Shami is also the co-owner and director of Studio 203, an artist-run space in Los Angeles that collaborates with artists to create exhibitions and host workshops and performances.

Time

Sep 16, 2020 12:00 PM in Pacific Time (US and Canada)

About Art Past Present

In order to understand the world, or at least to put it in perspective, we need reflection. We interpret the world by reviewing how it has been, how it might have been, how it could be. Understanding is comparing. Art, among many other things, can open up new perspectives. By shaping its own alternative reality, it implicitly or explicitly challenges the status quo. In times of radical change, perceived certainties reveal themselves as mere assumptions. It turns out that our interpretation of the world is not reality itself. However, such radical changes also allow for a sharper vision of possibilities and alternatives. In this discussion series, we invite artists to share their ideas about confronting the past to give meaning to the present, open up perspectives, and restore agency in times of irreconcilable alternative truths.

Hosted by Farrah Karapetian, artist, and writer, and Joes Segal, Chief Curator and Director of Programming at the Wende Museum.