<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" class="" style="font-family: ArialMT; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><img apple-inline="yes" id="21540940-E266-4AC4-A958-CCD6E4A55DBD" src="cid:190BD4B2-0E35-48D3-A020-E948F1C55B60@uwaterloo.ca" class=""><br class="" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;"><br class="" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;"><br class="" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;"><strong class="" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;"><span class="" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">University of Waterloo Fine Arts Presents</span></strong><br class="" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;"><strong class="" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;"><span class="" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(221, 0, 0);">MFA Thesis Two</span></strong><br class="" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;"><br class="" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;"></div><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong class=""><span class="" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Exhibitions closing Saturday May 18</span></strong></span><br class="" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;"><br class=""><br class="" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;"><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(221, 0, 0);" class="">Gallery One</span></strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Zahra Baseri</span></strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Tell All The Truth But Tell It Slant</span></strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><em class="">Tell All The Truth But Tell It Slant</em> is the result of my research on the problematic nature of binary oppositions and their causal relationship with power dynamics. From the viewpoint of an Iranian living in the Diaspora, I create images, objects, and spaces that subtly speak to the collective phenomenological experience of a shared melancholia that those who self-identify as Iranian are undergoing. The exhibition addresses complex issues of the oppressive ruling system in Iran that continually and deliberately produces socio-political turmoil as a way to control its citizens. I employ allegory and representation of culturally and historically significant imagery from Persian and Islamic art and architecture as a commentary on political and social issues. While accentuating the importance of materiality, my work questions the subject-object duality to more profoundly bring the political into the material realm</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class=""><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" class="">. </font></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><a href="http://www.zahrabaseri.com/" target="_blank" class="">www.zahrabaseri.com</a></span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(221, 0, 0);" class="">Gallery Two</span></strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Paula McLean</span></strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">To Catch A Glimpse of Things</span></strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><em class="">To Catch A Glimpse of Things</em> is an exploration into concretizing and prolonging ephemeral gestures. Through the repetition of ambiguous forms and recurring imagery of distorted, amorphous figures, an attempt is made to reconstruct the complex and fragmentary phenomenon of perception, and the way meaning is created retrospectively through the extraction and arrangement of disparate moments and details gathered from lived experience. Employing the mediums of painting, drawing and sculpture, the exhibition presents a body of work in which the process of reproducing, abstracting and translating distorted images into other variations, mirrors the universal activity of the meaning-making mind, a mind that analyzes, prioritizes, erases, or substitutes aspects of experience as a means of negotiating a perceptually fluid world.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class=""><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" class=""> </font></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><a href="http://www.paulamclean.ca/" target="_blank" class="">www.paulamclean.ca</a></span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" class=""><br class="" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;"><strong class="" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;"><span class="" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Exhibitions are free and open to the public.</span></strong><br class="" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;"><br class="" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;"><strong class="" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;"><span class="" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(221, 0, 0);">ADMIT EVERYONE</span></strong><br class="" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;"><span class="" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">University of Waterloo Art Gallery</span><br class="" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;"><span class="" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">East Campus Hall 1239</span><br class="" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; 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font-size: 13.333333015441895px;"><strong class="" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;"><span class="" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(221, 0, 0);">CONTACT</span></strong><br class="" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;"><span class="" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Ivan Jurakic, Director / Curator</span><br class="" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;"><span class="" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">519.888.4567 ext. 36741</span><br class="" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;"><a href="mailto:ijurakic@uwaterloo.ca" target="_blank" class="" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;"><span class="" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; 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font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(221, 0, 0);">DRIVING</span></strong><br class="" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;"><span class="" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">263 Phillip Street, Waterloo</span><br class="" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;"><span class="" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">East Campus Hall (ECH) is located north of University Avenue West across from Engineering 6</span><br class="" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;"><br class="" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;"><strong class="" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;"><span class="" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(221, 0, 0);">PARKING</span></strong><br class="" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; 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font-size: 13.333333015441895px;"><span class="" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">University of Waterloo Art Gallery</span><br class="" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;"><span class="" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">200 University Avenue West</span><br class="" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;"><span class="" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3G1</span><br class="" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;"><br class="" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><img alt="logos" apple-inline="yes" id="6DA73D58-064B-4F23-B19D-535C7E139E5F" class="" style="font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" src="cid:60147207-D9F0-420E-A3DD-AFE3517669F3@uwaterloo.ca"></font><br class="" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;"><br class="" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;"><span class="" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Images (left to right): Zahra Baseri, <em class="">Petrocubical</em> (installation detail), 2019. 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