GUEST CURATOR - Aryana Minai
GUEST CURATOR - Aryana Minai
Aryana Minai
Aug. 30 – Sept. 3, 2021Aryana Minai is a Los Angeles-based artist whose work excavates identity, architecture, inherited cultures, history, and materials through an Iranian-American lens and upbringing. Her work reconfigures traditional architectural forms, questions the foundations of these patterns and structures, and expresses these forms as culminations of histories and events passed down through generations.
Aryana Minai’s work is intimately linked to philosophies and histories of architecture, migration, labor, the body, and the handmade. Minai takes paper as something linked between tradition and craft, concerning the diasporic subject's daily lived experiences in the Iranian-American context. The work focuses on how a survival instinct to acknowledge inhabited spaces led to a gradual reduction of materials and an interest in teaching and learning from materials through generations. While she utilizes bricks and woodblocks to emboss these permutations on pulp, the works themselves also become architectural. Minai ultimately envisions architecture as a living entity that continually sheds and acquires memories as bodies pass through its spaces.
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Taliban say they won’t allow Afghans to leave country, reject evacuation extension
Published by CNN
Written by Nick Paton Walsh, Brad Lendon, Sheena Mckenzie, and Ivana Kottasová
Aug. 24, 2021
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Published by CNN
Written by Nick Paton Walsh, Brad Lendon, Sheena Mckenzie, and Ivana Kottasová
Aug. 24, 2021
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Egyptian archaeologists uncover 2,300-year-old settlement
Published by Daily Sabah
Aug. 27, 2021
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Published by Daily Sabah
Aug. 27, 2021
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Taliban members escorted Americans to gates at Kabul airport in secret arrangement with US
Published by CNN Politics
Written by Barbara Starr and Brianna Keilar
Aug. 31, 2021
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Published by CNN Politics
Written by Barbara Starr and Brianna Keilar
Aug. 31, 2021
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Body of Montana hiker found under rocks nearly 2 months after she vanished
Article published in NBC News
Written by Minyvonne Burke
Aug. 24, 2021
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Article published in NBC News
Written by Minyvonne Burke
Aug. 24, 2021
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Neanderthal Tooth from Iran Dated to Middle Paleolithic Period
Article published in Archaeology Magazine.
Sept. 2, 2021
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Article published in Archaeology Magazine.
Sept. 2, 2021
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Canadian Meteorologist's Dog Named Storm Interrupts Live Weather Report to Look for Treats
Published by People Magazine
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Published by People Magazine
Written by Naledi Ushe
Sept. 2, 2021Read the article Here
It is now a crime to feed peacocks in unincorporated L.A. County, some cities
Published by Los Angeles Times
Written by Jaclyn Cosgrove
Sept. 1, 2021
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Published by Los Angeles Times
Written by Jaclyn Cosgrove
Sept. 1, 2021
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