BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//www.zootownarts.org//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.30.10// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH UID:e20d84a5-9b21-4695-b469-04d7b92a1b44 X-WR-CALDESC:Gallery Opening First Friday\, August 5\, 5-8 PM\nIn the Black foot Communications Gallery through September 7\n\nAfter the traumatic dea th of her estranged father in Lebanon\, Tanya Abou-Ghazaly tries to find c losure by unpacking her family history through the lens of mortality. \n\n Death Mirror is a photo essay that weaves together fragments of her family history using poetic prose and old photographs exhumed from dusty boxes. A mural adapted from the photo essay will be exhibited at the ZACC through out the month of August. \n\nJumping between 1960s Beirut and the present\ , the story spotlights her grandfather (one of the first airline pilots in the Middle East)\, her father and the fate that befalls them both. The ar tist projects her existential fears onto the images\, hoping to process th e loss of a parent and the inescapable fact of her own mortality.\n\nExper imental\, the text unpacks language related to grief in English and Arabic \, providing a window into both cultures inhabited by the artist. By break ing down everyday words\, she puts forth new and imaginative ways of think ing about language in relation to death.\n\nThrough the alchemy of words a nd images\, this meditation on loss gives a personal account of death\, on e that is particular yet universal\, singular yet relatable. Death Mirror is a delicate exploration of grief that invites others into an intimate sp ace to contemplate their own mortality alongside the artist. \n\nAlongside the mural\, there will be handmade accordion books\, silkscreen prints an d postcards inspired by the photo essay on sale at the ZACC throughout the duration of the show.\n\nABOUT THE TANYA ABOU-GHAZALY\, IN HER OWN WORDS \n\n“I am a Lebanese-American writer\, mixed media artist and future corps e who spends much of my waking life thinking about mortality. As a death-c urious artist\, I always take on a deeply personal approach to grapple wit h the universal themes of grief\, loss and impermanence. By putting my exi stential fears into conversation with my family’s autobiography\, I transf orm the edge of the abyss into a place for deeper reflection on the condit ions of being.” X-WR-RELCALID:88f97cb09ea223dd9fc07b635463a9da X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Denver BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Denver BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20211107T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 RDATE:20221106T020000 RDATE:20231105T020000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20220313T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 RDATE:20230312T020000 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:715f18e4-4205-4df1-8ccf-46336e608a7f DTSTAMP:20261105T035631Z DESCRIPTION:Gallery Opening First Friday\, August 5\, 5-8 PM\nIn the Blackf oot Communications Gallery through September 7\n\nAfter the traumatic deat h of her estranged father in Lebanon\, Tanya Abou-Ghazaly tries to find cl osure by unpacking her family history through the lens of mortality. \n\nD eath Mirror is a photo essay that weaves together fragments of her family history using poetic prose and old photographs exhumed from dusty boxes. A mural adapted from the photo essay will be exhibited at the ZACC througho ut the month of August. \n\nJumping between 1960s Beirut and the present\, the story spotlights her grandfather (one of the first airline pilots in the Middle East)\, her father and the fate that befalls them both. The art ist projects her existential fears onto the images\, hoping to process the loss of a parent and the inescapable fact of her own mortality.\n\nExperi mental\, the text unpacks language related to grief in English and Arabic\ , providing a window into both cultures inhabited by the artist. By breaki ng down everyday words\, she puts forth new and imaginative ways of thinki ng about language in relation to death.\n\nThrough the alchemy of words an d images\, this meditation on loss gives a personal account of death\, one that is particular yet universal\, singular yet relatable. Death Mirror i s a delicate exploration of grief that invites others into an intimate spa ce to contemplate their own mortality alongside the artist. \n\nAlongside the mural\, there will be handmade accordion books\, silkscreen prints and postcards inspired by the photo essay on sale at the ZACC throughout the duration of the show.\n\nABOUT THE TANYA ABOU-GHAZALY\, IN HER OWN WORDS\n \nnI am a Lebanese-American writer\, mixed media artist and future corpse who spends much of my waking life thinking about mortality. As a death-cur ious artist\, I always take on a deeply personal approach to grapple with the universal themes of grief\, loss and impermanence. By putting my exist ential fears into conversation with my family’s autobiography\, I transfor m the edge of the abyss into a place for deeper reflection on the conditio ns of being.” DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20220805T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20220907T180000 LOCATION:in the Blackfoot Communications Gallery SUMMARY:Death Mirror\, Works by Tanya Abou-Ghazaly END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR