Guided Tour in Farsi
Chalisée Naamani: Octogone

The first solo exhibition outside France by Chalisée Naamani (b. 1995, Paris) is titled Octogone and includes a series of new commissions alongside recent sculpture, print and textile works. Naamani describes her sculpture as ‘image-garments’, produced via a process of layering and collaging images, fabrics and text from diverse sources. While her objects often resemble items of clothing or refer to the history of fashion, they are never intended to be worn. Rather, they invite us to reflect upon the political dimension of attire and how questions of form, function and aesthetics are bound to power and cultural meaning, incorporating ornamental traditions, iconographies, pop culture, personal photographs and archival material.

Nargol Gharahshir invites the Farsi- and Dari-speaking community in Vienna to join a guided tour of Chalisée Naamani’s exhibition Octogone. The event will be held in Farsi and is open to anyone interested in contemporary art, politics, fashion history and cultural crossovers.

The guided tour is free with a valid exhibition ticket.

Nargol Gharahshir

Nargol Gharahshir is an art and culture educator who works in artistic and scientific contexts on anti-discrimination. She is co-founder of the Javaneh collective, a feminist association of the Afghan, Kurdish and Iranian diaspora in solidarity with the Jin, Jiyan, Azadî movement.

In her artistic practice, Nargol deals with intersectional feminism, diasporic perspectives and community building. She has worked at HANGAR – Artistic Research Centre in Lisbon and participated in the Art Educators in Residence programme at documenta 15. She is currently involved in human rights education at Amnesty International.