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SUMMARY:PAIRIDAĒZA Group Show  An exploration of the paradise garden's utopian ideal.
DESCRIPTION:Last Weekend – Closes Sunday Jan 26\, 2025\n\nVideo features the work of Krista Gay\, Ali Kaeini\, Kitty Rauth\, Sam Sherman\, and Sasha Fishman. \nClick on image to start slide show.\n\n\n\n		\n				\n						\n		\n								\n			\n		\n							\n			\n				\n						\n		\n								\n			\n		\n							\n			\n				\n						\n		\n								\n			\n		\n							\n			\n				\n						\n		\n								\n			\n		\n							\n			\n				\n						\n		\n								\n			\n		\n							\n			\n				\n						\n		\n								\n			\n		\n							\n			\n	\n	\n\n	\n		\n			\nOpens Friday January 10\, 2025 6pm – 8pm \nShow dates: January 11 – Janury 26\, 2025 \nWestbeth Gallery\n55 Bethune Street\nNew York\,NY\nGallery Hours: Wed – Sun 1pm – 6pm \nWestbeth Gallery is pleased to present Pairidaēza\,a group exhibition featuring works by Sam Sherman\, Krista Gay\, Ali Kaeini\, Sasha Fishman\, Kate Stone\, Kitty Rauth\, and Charlie Manion. \nCurated by Celeste del Valle. \nConjuring imaginations of absentminded leisure\, luxury\, and eternal life\, the mythic concept\nof paradise is both a primeval place of origin and an imminent\, realizable future promised to\nthe virtuous few. Even in our “secularism\,” this notion continues to occupy a significant\nplace in our collective consciousness. \nThe word “paradise” can be traced through Latin and Greek to a relative of the Iranian\nlanguage Avestan\, the scriptural language of Zoroastrianism. Its near-Avestan root words\nshape the compound word Pairidaēza\, which translates as “to make or form a wall” and\n“enclosed garden.” \nIn his description of Paul Klee’s 1920 monoprint Angelus Novus\, Walter Benjamin wrote of\nthe angel of history: a creature facing backward towards the wreckage of the past\, forcibly\npropelled into the future by “a storm blowing from Paradise\,” which has “caught in his\nwings with such violence that [he] can no longer close them\,” despite the angel’s wish to\n“stay\, awaken the dead\, and make whole what has been smashed.”\nTaking Benjamin’s description of the storm in paradise as a cynosure\, this exhibition\nchallenges the paradise garden’s utopian ideal with questions its etymology implies: who is\nthe garden for? For what function is the wall designed? At what cost is the garden\nmaintained? \nThe artists brought together in this exhibition explore the tensions and questions inherent to\nthe paradise garden through varied media\, methods\, and narratives. Emblems of ritualism\nare interrupted and defanged\, exposing cracks in the walls where a new telos may emerge.\n– Celeste del Valle \nPlease join us for the opening reception of PAIRIDAĒZA on January 10\, 2025\, from 6-8\nPM. The exhibition will be open to the public Wednesday through Sunday\, 1-6 PM from\nJanuary 11 through January 26\, 2025.
URL:https://westbeth.org/event/westbeth-gallery-presents-pairidaeza-group-show-an-exploration-of-the-oparadise-gardens-utopian-ideal/
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