Are you buying these with loonies or toonies? – Soheila Esfahani
Red Head Gallery May 21, 2025 to June 14, 2025Wed - Sat, 12-5 pm
Are You Buying These With Loonies Or Toonies? is a continuation of Esfahani’s research and art practice which investigates the terrains of cultural translation through the theoretical framework of Homi K. Bhabha. In this exhibition, Esfahani is particularly exploring stereotype as otherness and Bhabha’s notion of ambivalence, which manifests as a split between appearance of an original and its expression as different and repetitive. This body of work is inspired by artifacts from the Aga Khan Museum’s collection, collected objects …
Book Launch: 100 Rooms by RZLBD
Swipe Design | Books + Objects June 19, 20256 - 8:30 PM
Thursday, June 19, 6 – 8:30PM Register for free on Eventbrite. As a sequel to The Empty Room: Fragmented Thoughts on Space (Actar, 2020), this book by Canadian architect RZLBD (Reza Aliabadi) elaborates the same theme with one hundred iterations of a square room, each of which tells a different story of the emptiness between the walls. The Empty Room, in the absence of any visual materials, was a written manifesto composed of RZLBD’s poems and collection of quotes intended …