Exhibitions, Canada, Calgary, 05 January 2018
The goal of this exhibition is to expose some acute social paradoxes, to question the issue of collective and cultural identity, the notion of a fellow human as an alien, and the policies based on fearmongering.
The centrepiece is a spatial representation of a social paradox. It’s demonstrating a phenomenon that by following the impulses and applying simple solutions to achieve imminent goals we can find ourselves in a quite opposite situation than we anticipated and intended.
It’s an interactive installation consisting of eight ordinary gates arranged in a shape of swastika. The gates are all closed at the beginning, and the spectator/subject is free to approach it from all directions. If spectator/subject try to open the gates he’s facing, one after the other, and leave them open, he will end up trapped inside a rectangular space enclosed by open gates.
This paradox that opening gates could get you captured is a reminder that reality is too complex to comply to simple answers, and that a chain of simple solutions usually leads to a counterintuitive ends.
The centrepiece is a spatial representation of a social paradox. It’s demonstrating a phenomenon that by following the impulses and applying simple solutions to achieve imminent goals we can find ourselves in a quite opposite situation than we anticipated and intended.
It’s an interactive installation consisting of eight ordinary gates arranged in a shape of swastika. The gates are all closed at the beginning, and the spectator/subject is free to approach it from all directions. If spectator/subject try to open the gates he’s facing, one after the other, and leave them open, he will end up trapped inside a rectangular space enclosed by open gates.
This paradox that opening gates could get you captured is a reminder that reality is too complex to comply to simple answers, and that a chain of simple solutions usually leads to a counterintuitive ends.
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“The right to equality is the right to choose. I chose to wear it — respect my rights. If you are fighting for a woman’s agency, you have to accept my agency to choose,”
Zainab bint Younus
“Laws should be adopted to end discrimination — not promote it.”
Marie-Claude Landry
“It's just my conviction and I am just practicing my rights as a Canadian. I am not trying to impose anything on anybody.”
Fatima Ahmad
"I should not have to justify my niqab just as I should not have to justify my rainbow socks or toque.”
Zainab bint Younus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_ban_on_face_covering
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