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Shulamit Nazarian Gallery: Elham Rokni - Clavileno
Elham Rokni
Clavileño
Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to announce Clavileño, a new exhibition, exploring the relationship between light, movement, and narrative, from Iran-born, Israel-based artist Elham Rokni. Anchored by two videos, the exhibition features new large-scale abstract works on paper that bring flashes of brightness, in the otherwise, dramatically dark installation. Following in the footsteps of experimental filmmakers before her, Rokni embraces a cinematic language that uses autobiographical expression through nonrepresentational imagery to challenge conventional notions of narrative and reflect an individual psyche.
The title video, Clavileño (2010), features a car driving in total darkness, a modern evocation of the famous journey Don Quixote and his squire Sancho Panza take astride Clavileño, a wood peg horse that they imagine can fly. Employing the power of imagination, the pair decides to take a transcendent flight through the air upon the grounded wooden vessel. Similar to the experience of cinema and literature, where parties involved agree to enter another time and space, Clavileño plays off of the Don Quixote narrative and takes the viewer on a journey down a darkened road, connecting imagination to an open world of extraordinary experiences and possibilities.
Shulamit Nazarian Gallery: Elham Rokn...
Date and Time
Thursday Jan 14, 2016 Thursday Feb 18, 2016
Exhibition:
January 14 - February 18, 2016
Location
Shulamit Nazarian Gallery
17 North Venice Blvd.
Venice 90291
310.281.0961
Fees/Admission
Free
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310.281.0961