Diyan Achijadi + Babak Golkar - Orientalism and Ephemera

Diyan Achjadi (Assistant Professor) and Babak Golkar (Sessional Faculty) will be exhibiting along with many International artists, in Orientalism and Ephemera.

Orientalism and Ephemera explores the attraction and presence of the "East" within our everyday experience. For many artists, this awareness presents a way to counter the violence of today's conflicts. Much of our contemporary cultural exchange is in response to the repeated and boundless violence of the politics of empire-building projects, which attempt to colonize the spatial, disempower the colonized, and destroy cultures.

The exhibition, Orientalism and Ephemera, was first presented at Art Metropole, Toronto in the spring of 2006, and was exhibited at the Art Gallery of Windsor in the 2006/2007 and at the Ottawa Art Gallery 2007/2008. It is presented at Centre A, Vancouver in March 2008 with the addition of artworks by artists from Vancouver & Winnipeg.

Many of my projects reflect on the cultural space of the Middle East and the legacy of Edward Said's groundbreaking book Orientalism (1978).

The exhibit is curated by Jamelie Hassan.

March 14 to April 26, 2008

Opening event on Friday, March 14 at 8pm

For more information, please visit Centre A Gallery