Yokohama Triennale 2020 Tour
Venue: Yokohama Museum of Art. 17 July - 11 October 2020, Japan. Title: Afterglow. Artistic Director: RaqsMedia Collective. 67 artists and groups.
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* 1985 Tehran, Iran.
She Who Sees The Unknown: Ya'jooj Ma’jooj. 2018
Installation view
Yokohama Museum of Art
Allahyari employs digital technologies such as computer modeling and explores the intersection of technology and art activism. Exhibited in this Triennale is her VR installation She Who Sees The Unknown: Ya’jooj Ma’jooj, retelling the stories of Ya’jooj and Ma’jooj, whom according to the Qur’an, spread great mischief on earth and represent chaos, so an iron wall was built to detain them, separating them from humans. According to the prophecy, the wall would crumble one day and their release would precede ‘the end of the days’. Allahyari uses the images of monstrous female and queer figures portrayed in Islamic cultures as points of departure to tell new stories in relationship to catastrophes of our time.
(From information by Yokohama Triennale 2020)
© Morehshin ALLAHYARI
© Photo: KATO Ken. Courtesy of Organizing Committee for Yokohama Triennale
Venue: Yokohama Museum of Art. 17 July - 11 October 2020, Japan. Title: Afterglow. Artistic Director: RaqsMedia Collective. 67 artists and groups.