Soheila Esfahani exhibits at the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris.

Fine Arts Alumna Soheila Esfahani (BA 2003), along with artists Jude Abu Zaineh and Xiaojing Yan, are exhibiting in The Art of Living: On Immigration, Community and the Migration of Symbols curated by Catherine Bédard at the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris. The artistic practices of these three women, all Canadian immigrants, draw of their experiences of living in both Eastern and Western cultures.

"Both Eastern and Western, these women who came to Canada from China, Palestine and Iran forge ties that transform, distort and augment strong symbolic images: a staircase, a bridge, a word, a poem, decorative motifs, myths and legends. They give another dimension to the notion of cultural identity by presenting the viewer with hybrid and industrialized objects that are denatured, far from any idealization of the elsewhere and the past. A blood-red filamentary goddess, decorative motifs teeming with biological life, commercial reproductions of a traditional bird from 3D prints and other works that allow symbols to freely migrate constitute a powerful, intimate reflection on an art of displacement and diaspora." - Catherine Bédard (Curator)

The exhibition runs from May 13 to October 21, 2022 at the Canadian Cultural Centre, 130 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, Paris, France

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