East Bay Media Center Hosts Screenings of Work by Bahar and Negar Behbahani Today
Please join us for a screening of the short films of artists and filmmakers, Bahar Behbahani and Negar Behbahani. Taking place at East Bay Media Center today, November 21 at 2pm, the event is presented by Diaspora Arts Connection.
Beginning with an introduction, the screening will feature five short films-including their collaboration, Ride the Caspian. Throughout the program, the artists will speak informally about topics from behind the scenes of their work and their ongoing collaboration that has taken them from Tehran to Azerbaijan to Brooklyn. They will also speak about their shared interest in documentation and displacement, both of which are common themes in their work. The program will end with the premiere of Behind the Mirrors-their latest collaboration made in Cappadocia, Turkey.ABOUT BAHAR BEHBAHANI
Multidisciplinary artist, Bahar Behbahani's work addresses her long-term conceptual dialogue with memory and loss, representing her chronic displacement and longing. Through her lyrical work across mediums, Behbahani stages a contemporary cultural critique by layering and juxtaposing allusions to past and present sociopolitical circumstances with a language of her own experience. Her work has been featured in the 18th Biennale of Sydney, Australia; Sharjah Biennial 10, UAE; Queens Museum, New York; The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan; MACRO, Museum of Contemporary Art, Italy; Mimara Museum, Croatia; The Tribeca Film Festival, New York; the Asia Art Biennial, Bangladesh; and The Prologue Exhibition for the 2016 Honolulu Biennial, Hawaii, among others.
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