The majority of Akhavan’s work is site-specific, induced and influenced by the politics, geographies, artists and architectures within proximity to the particular work. For his debut solo exhibition at the The Third Line, Akhavan will create an installation including a series of maps painted directly on a wall within the gallery space. These geographical renditions converge along the lines of mapping and remapping the space, the geography and architecture of Dubai as well as its growing art market. He has strategically selected imagery readily identified with the city, visualizing connections between the art world and the current economy; a reflection towards this relationship to goods and resources (as gold, land and art). The map is pieced together by outlining the topography in gold leaf, implementing subtle humor and the fantasy associated with the city, taking the viewer beyond the simple and / or literal ‘map’.
Abbas Akhavan was born in Tehran, Iran and has been living in Canada since 1992. He holds a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Akhavan explores the powerful relationships rooted in the domestication of nature and the territorial use of space to emphasize the ritualistic nature of (art) spaces and art viewing in order to render the audience as active viewers and impending voyeuristic trespassers. He has recently exhibited at Artspeak in Vancouver, Canada and shown at Kunsten Museum of Modern Art, Denmark; Uplands Gallery, Australia; and Le Printemps de septembre, France. Akhavan lives in Toronto.
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