Abbas Akhavan’s Project of Projection

Last year, Abbas Akhavan's exhibition One Hundred Years at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery in Vancouver presented new and recent installation works, sculptures and videos that blur the meanings and distinctions between stage, set, gameboard, studio and gallery to explore notions of time.  Akhavan makes work that is often responsive to site, attentive to architecture and the encounter between work and audience. Through a largely sculptural and installation practice, the artist considers how spaces are defined, how we are complicit with or subject to the control of those spaces, and he often develops works through a residency model, as he did at the Belkin.

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