FIELD MEETING TAKE 6: THINKING COLLECTIONS

Video Documentation

 

Pop-ups Walkthrough with Artists & Audiences

Warehouses 47

This video documents a walkthrough tour of FIELD MEETING Pop-ups, which brought artists, galleries & arts organizations to present installations stemming from various acts of collecting. Encompassing a range of practices, these Pop-ups also foregrounded “collecting and collections” as an inherent aspect of curatorial work and exhibition making.

Warehouse 47 presented Rana Dehghan’s (Tehran) site-specific multimedia installation which protested animal maltreatment and consumption; Hasanul Isyraf Idris’s (Penang) otherworldly illustrations drawn from the visual vocabulary of his native Pangkor Island in Malaysia; Haiyang Wang’s (Beijing) surreal scenarioed animations and drawings, alongside Yuan Gao’s (Beijing) works on paper and a short film rendered from digitized acrylic paintings; Bingyi’s (Beijing) epic trillogy of films set in the historic alleyways (hutongs) of Beiging right before they were demolished inspired by the artist’s collection of thousands of Hutong Love Letters; Bahman Mohammadi’s (Tehran) archive of paleoanthropologycal evolution
in the form of self-portraits on mix media & wood as well as on fabric.
 
Curated by Leeza Ahmady & Maryam Ghoreishi
 

 

Click here for FIELD MEETING full curatorial narrative
Click on each artist’s name below for detailed introductions (synopses, bios and images)

Pop-up Artists | Warehouses 47

Rana Dehghan (Tehran), supported by Roya Khadjavi Projects (New York & Tehran); Hasanul Isyraf Idris (Penang) supported by Richard Koh Fine Arts (Kuala Lumpur); Haiyang Wang and Yuan Gao (Beijing), supported by Capsule Shanghai; Bingyi, supported by Ink Studio (Beijing) Bahman Mohammadi, supported by Mah Art Gallery (Tehran).