PROJET CASA

How do we perceive, create and connect with the world we live in? In what ways do we relate, and how do we weave and un-weave the threads around us, whether in the familial, physical or metaphorical context? These are some of the existential questions on identity, body and displacement that sisters Farzaneh and Mancy Rezaei explore in their new corpus, specially conceived for Project Casa.  

While informed by traditional Iranian models, their artistic languages have evolved in unusual and disruptive ways. Mancy impresses her body on paper defiantly in a performative gesture of reaffirmation, while Farzaneh’s drawings with saffron are catalysts for remembrance, as she reflects upon human mobility and longing. In their state of in-betweenness, the Rezaei sisters take pleasure in unveiling what is hidden within themselves, by being and belonging everywhere and nowhere at the same time.

A selection of drawings will be shown at the Maison de la Culture in NDG-Botrel, from November 8 to January 12, 2025, as a complement to this exhibition: https://montreal.ca/lieux/maison-de-la-culture-notre-dame-de-grace-botrel