Abbas Akhavan – A Few In Many Places, SEPTEMBER 26–NOVEMBER 28, 2020
Abbas Akhavan A Few In Many Places September 26–November 28, 2020
Protocinema at Parc Offsite, Montreal, Canada
Protocinema presents A Few In Many Places, a group show which consists of five artist interventions in five cities, hyper-localized and globally interconnected. These artists: Abbas Akhavan in Montreal; Burak Delier in Istanbul; Michelle Lopez in Philadelphia; Stéphanie Saadé in Beirut; and Hasan Özgür Top in Berlin; each address inherited cycles of violence, the breaking of these cycles and rebuilding of ideally healthier systems.
A Few In Many Places commissioned works are interventions in a local shop or empty space in the artists’ neighbourhoods that will be open in or out of quarantine, using low material consumption, without flights or shipping. All of these works are linked by ProtoZine, with texts rolling out over the run of the show by: Rayya Badran, Fawz Fabra, Adam Kleinman, Asli Seven, and Abhijan Toto.
A silent video by Abbas Akhavan, Spill, 2020, will be projected nighty, between dusk and dawn, through the exterior window of Parc Offsite, a new art space in a former apartment rezoned as a storefront in the 1970s. Accompanying this video during the days is a floor installation inside. This installation lingers somewhere between a set for chroma key filming, a fictional space to both conceal and insert elements, and potentially the material aftermath of a large accident.
