With a specific interest in the relationship of objects as forces in a poetic amalgam, Tannaz Farsi’s installations navigate a path of visual familiarity and in turn speak the language of a pedestrian architecture that simultaneously produces and erases collective meaning. Culled through prose, current events, music, and art historical references, these highlighted moments operate to memorialize and give voice to longing, dissent and frustration. The mimetic formulation of value in objects intermingling with the importance of locational presence creates referential moments to articulate a new aesthetic of revolt. Much like emblems of a decapitated culture, the materials, images, objects and texts choose to translate the banality of our surroundings as portals to individual longing.
Redefining specificity to the actual space presented, objects, viewers and the architecture of the provided space define the contingencies and viewpoints generated in each installation. The conflation of vertical and horizontal axis as well as the juxtapositions between hard and soft materials, durability and ephemrality as well as labored and the ready-made object take positions in the conceptual parameters of the work. These juxtapositions predicate a translation between the act of looking and making meaning in our vision through the disruptions of systems that manufacture their own tasks.
