{"title":"Morehshin Allahyari","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"speculations-on-capture","title":"Speculations on Capture","description":"","brand":"Morehshin Allahyari","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54128962339201,"sku":"MAL0001","price":25000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0681\/4489\/0155\/files\/Speculations.webp?v=1741877365"},{"product_id":"moonfaced-rooyesh-fragment","title":"Moonfaced:Rooyesh [Fragment]","description":"","brand":"Morehshin Allahyari","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54271483150721,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"she-who-sees-the-unknown-zobaah","title":"She Who Sees The Unknown: Zoba'ah","description":"\u003cp\u003eVirtual sculpture: https:\/\/virtuelleskulpturer.samtidskunst.dk\/zobaah\/en\/\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Morehshin Allahyari","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54276071096705,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0681\/4489\/0155\/files\/blckBGZoba_ah-Frontcopy.jpg?v=1746028299"},{"product_id":"queer-withdrawings-and-qareen-ii","title":"Queer Withdrawings and Qareen II","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Queer Withdrawings is a site-specific installation of drawings and two sculptural works inspired by an annotated and illustrated archive of manuscripts and other sources of Islamic mythologies and the occult sciences, which can be viewed in full at \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/archive.shewhoseestheunknown.com\/\"\u003earchive.shewhoseestheunknown.com.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThese two mirrored sculptural figures, Qareen i and Qareen ii (Arabic\/Farsi: قرين, lit. “constant companion”), offer blessings of healing and protection to their observers. Known as a primarily decorative medium in Iran, mirroring (Farsi: آینهکاری ayeneh-kari lit. “mirror-work”, or قرینهسازی Qareeneh Sazi lit. “to reverse”) is used as an aesthetic revetment in shrines. Mirroring schemas and mirrored-looking sketches furnish the walls, working in tandem with the symmetry found in the other works in the show to balance order and power.  a site-specific installation of drawings from an annotated and illustrated archive of manuscripts and other sources of Islamic mythologies and the occult sciences, which can be viewed in full at \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/archive.shewhoseestheunknown.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003earchive.shewhoseestheunknown.com\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe exhibition is accompanied by a text by art historian and educator Nima Esmailpour, which can be read \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/management.nyc\/ve-files\/0002023.pdf\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Morehshin Allahyari","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54276075553153,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0681\/4489\/0155\/files\/Qareen-ii.jpg?v=1746028404"},{"product_id":"material-speculation-isis-lamassu","title":"Material Speculation: ISIS (Lamassu)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMy series Material Speculation: ISIS is a 3D modeling and 3D printing project focused on the reconstruction of 12 selected statues from the Roman period city of Hatra and Assyrian artifacts from Nineveh that were destroyed by ISIS in 2015 in a series of highly-publicized YouTube videos. The series goes beyond metaphoric gestures and digital and material forms of the artifacts by including a flash drive and a memory card inside the body of each 3D-printed object. Like time capsules, each object is sealed (though accessible) for future civilizations. The information in these flash drives includes images, maps, PDF files, and videos gathered on the artifacts and sites that were destroyed. Thus Material Speculation: ISIS creates a practical and political possibility for artifact archival, while also proposing 3D printing technology as a tool for resistance and documentation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMaterial Speculation inspects Petropolitical and poetic relationships between 3D Printing, Plastic, Oil, Technocapitalism and Jihad.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn February 26, 2016, I published one of my reconstructions from “Material Speculation: ISIS,” as well as a dossier of my research, as part of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rhizome_(organization)\"\u003eRhizome\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‘s series \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/rhizome.org\/editorial\/2016\/feb\/16\/morehshin-allahyari\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eThe Download\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Morehshin_Allahyari#cite_note-15\"\u003e[15]\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Through this commission, my object file for King Uthal was made openly available to anyone for 3D printing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI am currently working on finding a platform\/museum for the release and the preservation of all the digital files and models from this project. If you are interested a museum, in the Middle-East, please contact me for more information.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 2016, I was the recipient of Foreign Policy’s 100 Leading Global Thinker award and the Digital Sculpture 2016 Award by The Institute of Digital Art for Material Speculation: ISIS. The series led to a great deal of press and reviews, and has been continuously on loan for exhibition since I completed it, to venues including the Biennale Architettura (Venice, 2016), Centre Pompidou (Paris, 2017), Museum of Applied Arts \u0026amp; Sciences (Sydney, 2017), among others.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e*Special thanks to Pamela Karimi, Christopher Jones, Negin Tabatabaei, Wathiq Al-Salihi, Lamia Al Gailani Werr for their help with research.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e*Special Thanks to Shannon Walsh, Shane O’Shea, Sierra Dorschutz,Patrick Delory, Christian Pramuk, and Mariah Hettel for their help with 3D modeling.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Morehshin Allahyari","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54276076831105,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0681\/4489\/0155\/files\/Lamassu.jpg?v=1746028534"}],"url":"https:\/\/gazell.io\/collections\/morehshin-allahyari.oembed","provider":"GAZELL.iO","version":"1.0","type":"link"}