2016

The Mole Cricket and The Night Guard Are Awake" is artist Aras Seddigh's second solo show. The distorted figures prevalent in her first solo show "Crossbreeds" resurface in this exhibition. Although these abnormal figures ignite a sense of familiarity, they do not belong to a specific time or place. Contrary to her first exhibition, the artist ventures out from the safe grounds of canvas, now accompanying them with sculptures, a video installation and an artist book of the same name — an experimental narrative composed of three interwoven stories that explore the place of fiction within the flow of everyday and ordinary life, alongside the interruptions, intersections, and re-formations of individual and collective memory. The exhibition takes its title from the introduction sentence of this book. Rather than being complementary to one another, it aims to inspire a dialog between them. Seddigh's works dabble between reality and fiction by seeking out where one begins and the other ends. "At what point does reality become a product of our creation? During the continuous switch between reality and fiction, how much is one aware of the artificial and the genuine? The production process echoes the inner struggle of the artist, but how reflective can it be of the issues within society?" are some questions the artist explores in her works. The works carry traces of an object's own memory while the viewers may attribute meaning to them through their own experience. Discreetly, the pieces exude the memory they have obtained during their production process.