Saturday, March 15, 2025, at 3 pm
A Choreography for Unfolding Worlds by Andros Zins-Browne
registration required
You are invited to join us for a special performance by artist Andros Zins-Browne as he presents a newly developed choreography in response to Maryam Taghavi’s Unfolding Worlds exhibition. Through movement and dance, Zins-Browne amplifies notions of perception, time, and movement inherent in Taghavi’s works on view at The Goldfarb Gallery and brings new perspective to Unfolding Worlds through the language of dance.
The backdrop and inspiration for Andros Zins-Browne’s choreography is the first institutional solo exhibition in Canada by Chicago-based Iranian-Canadian artist Maryam Taghavi. Unfolding Worlds features recent paintings, sculptures, and an architectural installation. In her practice, Maryam is motivated by the unseen. She explores this concept through letter forms, particularly Islamic calligraphy, which expresses a reverence for the spiritual and a connection to the divine. Much of the work in Unfolding Worlds derives from an interest in the noghte, a unit of measurement in calligraphy. Represented by a diamond-shaped point, this essential diacritical mark in Persian script is repeated throughout her work, becoming portals of light in her installations, horizon lines in her paintings, and connections to Islamic and Western art histories of abstraction.
Andros Zins-Browne. Photo: Paula Court, Whitney Museum of American Art
Andros Zins-Browne (b. 1981, New York) is an artist working at the intersection of performance and dance. He extends choreographic practice into encounters with dancers, non-dancers, singers, students, objects, and texts. His works include Already Unmade, an unmaking of his own dance archive, performed at the ICA, London; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai; and Fondation Galeries Lafayette, Paris. Atlas Unlimited, a series of exhibitions weaving sculpture and vocal performance in collaboration with artist Karthik Pandian, was featured at the Performa 19 Biennial. Other works of his have been commissioned by KADIST Foundation, The Museum of Modern Art, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the 10th Berlin Biennial, and the Hammer Museum. Zins-Browne is the recipient of grants and awards from the Goethe Institute, the Flemish Cultural Ministry, New York State Council for the Arts, and the Graham Foundation.
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