PULSE Miami Beach PLAY Presents BAHAR BEHBAHANI

An official selection for PULSE Miami Beach PLAY, multidisciplinary artist Bahar Behbahani's AJAX BOOT-a new, single-channel video-will be on view December 1 - 5 at booth S-102, courtesy of the artist and Causey Contemporary. Set in Turkey, AJAX BOOT questions the loss of individual power in a place fraught by psycho-geographic and socio-political contradictions. Behbahani's work considers the value of a less emotive, but equally poignant perspective-she stages a contemporary cultural critique, layering and juxtaposing allusions to past and present socio-political circumstances in a satiric tone. Watch an excerpt of the film here.

PLAY is a dedicated showcase for video and new media, serving as a platform to encourage discovery within the digital realm. Curated by Stacy Engman for PULSE Miami Beach 2015, the selected art videos share common and overlapping themes regarding notions of glamour, isolation, and reflection-driven by narratives of constructed environments and contexts which vacillate between notions of the real and imagined.

DATE/S
December 1 - 5, 2015

LOCATION
Booth S-102
PULSE Miami Beach
Indian Beach Park
4601 Collins Avenue
Miami Beach, FL 33140

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.

Behbahani was awarded an Art Omi International Artists Residency by The Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant in 2013 and the Art and Culture Network Program Grant from the Open Society Institute, Budapest in 2011. Guggenheim Museum Curator Suzanne Cotter selected her video for the 10th Sharjah Biennial, UAE. In 2007, her video Suspended was selected 'Best in Show' by Carrie Springer, Senior Curatorial Assistant, Whitney Museum of American Art. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Queensland Museum, Australia; Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE; and Columbia Hospital, New York; as well as numerous private collections. Behbahani received her BA and MA in painting in Tehran, Iran and lives in Brooklyn, New York. She is currently an artist in residence with Time Equities' Art-in-Buildings program, examining the construction of 50 West.

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