Faye Wei Wei, Talar Aghbashian

Faye Wei Wei
the sounds of the organ pushing the walls of the cathedral outwards
Wednesday, 13rd March
7:00 - 10:00 pm

The Clown’s Harpoon Room

Foam from a nearby jet wash splatters the silk flowers which line the car lot at Jumbo’s. It causes a layer of white lint to cover the plywood Head in the Hole which flanks the club’s entrance, Jack puts his face through and becomes a painted jester screwing his mouth as the soap snow hits his lips. The muffled sound of Crystal Gale’s ‘Talking in Your Sleep’ plays from a bracket in the ceiling as we walk through the set of steel doors. Framed on each wall are stacked velvet paintings of the bar’s namesake clown. A girl in a plastic wig evades my eyes as she dances on a laminate podium. She dismounts the stage when the radium dial of a dark clock reads 01.23 am and a vacant spotlight replaces her.

Excerpt of a text by Lowe Poulter

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Talar Aghbashian

About the artist: Born in Beirut in 1981, Talar Aghbashian lives and works in London UK. Aghbashian is primarily a painter, her works explore the human intervention within the landscape. Where her approach to both, painting and landscape is from a place of discovery. Her paintings, explore the human relationship to the landscape, and the projection of one onto the other.

Talar Aghbashian graduated from the Lebanese University of Fine Arts (BA) 1999-2003, Central St. Martins College of Art and Design London (MA) 2007-2008, and Birkbeck University of London 2009-2010. She was a recipient of AGBU grant NY, and Benlian Trust grant London, 2007-2008. Aghbashian has taught at different schools, and MUT University in Lebanon 2003-2007, and has worked as a curator at the NHM and the V&A Museums London 2009-2010.