Sohrab Kashani Explained

Sohrab Kashani
Birth Date:April 10, 1989
Birth Place:Tehran, Iran
Nationality:Iranian
Field:Installation, Performance, Film, Video art, Image, Photography, Writing
Works:The Other Apartment, Super Sohrab

Sohrab Kashani (Persian: سهراب کاشانی) is an Iranian artist and contemporary art curator.[1]

Work as artist

Super Sohrab (2009–present)

Super Sohrab,[2] Kashani’s alter-ego is a superhero who utilises satire and failure in their attempts to navigate the everyday challenges of daily life. Through the documentation of some of their own life events and their own failures, Super Sohrab addresses local and global socio-political problems.[3] Super Sohrab's work often comprises performative interventions presented in photographs, videos, comics, text, and other formats.[4] [5] Super Sohrab also arm-wrestles in public to challenge and discuss power dynamics and sets up lifting workshops to practice resilience and resistance.[6] [7]

The Other Apartment (2019–present)

The Other Apartment[8] is a collaborative project between Kashani and Pittsburgh-based artist Jon Rubin that initially occurred simultaneously in Kashani's apartment in Tehran and an exact replica of that apartment and all of its contents at the Mattress Factory museum in Pittsburgh, U.S.[9] Using detailed photographs from Kashani (who was not able to travel to the U.S. due to the travel ban on Iranian citizens), the artists worked with a team of fabricators to meticulously recreate his Tehran apartment's facade, interior architecture, and all of his personal possessions. From his soap dish to his furniture, everything in The Other Apartment was purchased, altered, or entirely fabricated to replicate what existed in Kashani's apartment.[10] [11] Located within The Other Apartment, in both Tehran and Pittsburgh, was Sazmanab, Kashani's contemporary art space. Sazmanab produced programs where every object, video, and performance that happened in one space was meticulously duplicated for the other.[12] [13]

Darookhaneh Apotheke Pharmacy (2022/2024)

Darookhaneh Apotheke Pharmacy[14] is a conversation space in the form of an Iranian pharmacy run by Kashani and German-born artist Anahita Razmi since 2022.[15] Its spatial set-up comprises an installation filled with copies of Iranian pharmaceuticals and medication packages.[16] [17] Emerging in the aftermath of a global pandemic and a period of shared devastation, during which concerns about the unequal distribution of vaccines became pressing issues, Darookhaneh Apotheke Pharmacy makes a link to the Iranian concept of "darookhaneh" ("daroo" (medicine/cure) and "khaneh" (home) = "the home for cure"), testing out what it can enable for hybrid artistic work during crisis.[18] Transcultural (dis)connections, trade infrastructures, legal obstacles, and inequalities in medicine distribution between the Global North and the Global South are some of the topics echoed in this space, which furthermore aims to look at what artistic strategies of appropriation and copying can do for rethinking and shifting (neo)colonial power dynamics. Bringing together selected speakers, collaborators, and the public, Darookhaneh Apotheke Pharmacy fosters discussions and conversations on these critical topics and their larger contexts.[19]

Work as curator

Sazmanab (2008–present)

Sazmanab is a curatorial platform by Kashani which he originally started as an artist-run space and residency program in Tehran in 2008.[20] [21] From 2008 to 2014, Sazmanab was located in an apartment in the Sadeghiyeh district of Tehran and later in 2014 was relocated to an old building on Khaghani street near Darvaze Dolat in downtown Tehran.[22] [23] [24] Since 2008, Sazmanab has set up more than hundred events and exhibitions at its venues and off-site. Sazmanab also holds talks and presentations at universities, museums, and institutions and takes part in international panels, seminars, and forums.[25] [26] [27] [28]

Exhibitions curated

See also

References

  1. Web site: Sohrab Kashani . lafayetteanticipations.com . 27 November 2021 .
  2. Web site: Super Sohrab. supersohrab.com . 27 November 2021 .
  3. Web site: Iran's artists warn US and European sanctions are affecting their work . Saeed Kamali Dehghan . 31 October 2013 . The Guardian . 29 March 2014.
  4. Web site: Accelerating Beyond "Iran"? . . 9 March 2014 . Ajam Media Collective . 29 March 2014.
  5. Web site: Remediation of the News Feed . Sandra Skurvida . 27 May 2015 . Art Practical . 28 June 2015.
  6. Web site: Cosmopolis #2: rethinking the human at Centre Pompidou . e-flux.com . 27 November 2021 .
  7. Web site: The Superhero Summit . kadist.org . 27 November 2021 .
  8. Web site: The Other Apartment. theotherapartment.com . 27 November 2021 .
  9. Web site: The Other Apartment. mattress.org . 27 November 2021 .
  10. Web site: Two Artists Attempt to Collaborate Across Continents, Travel Bans and All . Golnar Yarmohammad Touski . 26 March 2020 . Hyperallergic . 27 November 2021.
  11. Web site: In 'The Other Apartment,' One Home Spans a Deep Divide . Laura Feinstein . 2 December 2019 . Bloomberg CityLab . 27 November 2021.
  12. Web site: Experimental art space in Tehran has been recreated in Pittsburgh . Gabriella Angeleti . 5 November 2019 . The Art Newspaper . 27 November 2021.
  13. Web site: How Two Artists Meticulously Reproduced a Tehran Apartment Gallery in Pittsburgh as a Way Around the Iranian Travel Ban . Sarah Cascone . 3 February 2020 . artnet News . 27 November 2021.
  14. Web site: Darookhaneh Apotheke Pharmacy. darookhaneh.de . 18 April 2022 .
  15. Web site: Arts of the Working Class. artsoftheworkingclass.org . 18 April 2022 .
  16. Web site: uqbar projectspace. projectspace.uqbar-ev.de . 18 April 2022 .
  17. Web site: philomena+. philomena.plus . 13 May 2024 .
  18. Web site: Art Rabbit. artrabbit.com . 18 April 2022 .
  19. Web site: NEUSTART für Bildende Künstlerinnen und Künstler. innovative-kunstprojekte.de . 18 April 2022 .
  20. Web site: Paradox of Tehran . Daria Kirsanova . 9 January 2013 . Art Fridge . 29 March 2014.
  21. Web site: A Postcard from Tehran . Doreen Mende . 12 January 2014 . Manifesta Journal . 29 March 2014.
  22. Web site: Best Places to Travel in 2016 . Travel + Leisure Staff . January 2016 . Travel + Leisure (Time Inc.) . 10 May 2016.
  23. Web site: A Postcard from Tehran . Doreen Mende . 12 January 2014 . Manifesta Journal . 29 March 2014.
  24. Web site: Portals: Shared Experiences over Skype . The Skype Team . 19 January 2015 . Skype Blogs . 19 February 2016.
  25. Web site: Run an Art Space in Tehran . machineproject.com . 18 August 2018 .
  26. Web site: Alternative Art Spaces and Practices in Iran | Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies . 2017-02-18 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160610154329/http://iranian-studies.stanford.edu/media/video/alternative_art_spaces_and_practices_in_iran . 2016-06-10 .
  27. Web site: Iranians scream into pots at new contemporary art center . Michelle Moghtadar . 10 November 2014 . Reuters . 28 June 2015.
  28. Web site: Iran Special Edition : Reza Aramesh at Sazmanab . Laurence Cornet . 17 February 2015 . L’Oeil de la Photographie . 28 June 2015.
  29. Web site: Voice-over (in three parts).
  30. Web site: The Social Studio . Sara Raza . 22 January 2016 . Guggenheim Blogs . 19 February 2016.
  31. Web site: "Shattered Frames". 7 April 2017. Pejman Foundation. 28 January 2018.
  32. Web site: Conflict Kitchen » Iranian Film & Video Festival.
  33. Web site: The Mine: Group Exhibition — ART WEEK . 2015-06-28 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150630231711/http://www.artweek.ae/galleries-1/2015/3/16/the-mine-group-exhibition . 2015-06-30 .
  34. Web site: Mapping Within: An Alternative Guide to Tehran and Beyond - Art Events - TimeOutDubai.com. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150422033830/http://www.timeoutdubai.com/art/events/38135-mapping-within:-an-alternative-guide-to-tehran-and-beyond. 2015-04-22.
  35. Web site: Iranian Video Art Featured in Public Art Discussion at CMA on June 20 2013.
  36. Web site: SubTehran: Subjective Truth from Iran | cca . 2014-03-30 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140330054255/http://www.cca.ge/node/68 . 2014-03-30 .
  37. Web site: Caucasusartmag » SubTehran: Subjective Truth from Iran . www.caucasusartmag.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140309070923/http://caucasusartmag.com/subtehran-subjective-truth-from-iran . 2014-03-09.
  38. Web site: Conflict Kitchen » the Tehran/Pittsburgh YouTube Mix.

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