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Untitled

Gallery D300, CalArts, Santa Clarita

Januray 15 - 22 2022
MFA Mid Residency Show

press release
Untitled  - poem originally hung in the gallery, 37 pages, high resolution scans

Photos by Yasaman Alipour

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Untitled (2022) could be referred to as an event weaving (in) the relationship between truth, knowledge, and witness. The syncopated space of a constant
aftermath where the materiality of a shattered screen has exploded, fixating words that herald without explaining, that configure without describing. Words
composing a poem written across the 67 days leading up to the space's 'opening' and devoid of a clear subject, focus, direction, destination; a collector, the dislocation of a life onto a warping plane. So the poem unfolds along the space's perimeter (a periphery), pronouncing a life of excess, control, excess, poiesis, brainfeeding, ending, the kiss, the trouble with description and describing, configuration, pain, the animal, critique, juices, malady, taming, zones, policing, masks, Brighid, navigating and navigation, loving, water, more kuss, self-mining, islands and retaliation, among other things.

Untitled (2022) was influenced by Giorgio Agamben's text ‘Testimony and Truth’, published in the collection Quando la Casa Brucia (Giometti & Antonello, 2020). Agamben's text and Untitled could be read and experienced as commentaries of each other.