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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt">UW Fine Arts MFA Thesis Three: Brent Garbett + CAFKA23: Shirin Fahimi</span><span style="font-size:18.0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">University of Waterloo Art Gallery<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">June 8-July 22<br>
Opening Reception: Thursday June 8, 5-8 pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-ligatures:none"><img width="600" height="338" style="width:6.25in;height:3.5208in" id="Picture_x0020_8" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D993CC.F31CE970" alt="A picture containing painting, art, art gallery, art exhibition
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Brent Garbett<br>
New Day. New Painting.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#242424">Wherever I am, I see paintings. My approach is observational, a way of being in my body and in the landscape. It is not only about what I see, but also how it feels,
and how I move within it. <i>New Day. New Painting. </i>explores my day-to-day life and the landscapes that have surrounded me as a graduate student. The exhibition is organized into four groups: my home, the campus, my research trip to Charleston, South Carolina,
and the walk to my car—an experience that was interrupted when a stand of trees that seemed almost familial were unexpectantly cut down.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">Brent Garbett</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"> was born in Toronto and raised in Scarborough, Puslinch, and Guelph, Ontario. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from
NSCAD University in Halifax and is currently completing his MFA at the University of Waterloo. He is the recipient of the Keith and Win Shantz International Scholarship and has work in the permanent collection of the Art Gallery of Guelph.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-ligatures:none"><img width="600" height="338" style="width:6.25in;height:3.5208in" id="Picture_x0020_7" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D993CC.F31CE970" alt="A person standing in a desert
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Shirin Fahimi<br>
II0I I0I0 (Umm al Raml tracing the dots)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">II0I I0I0 (Umm al Raml tracing the dots)</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> is an immersive single-channel video installation that renders visible the absence of female prophets within Islamic literature
and explores its challenges. This work juxtaposes the spiritual journey of four Iranian women practicing mysticism in Toronto against a mesmerizing digital landscape generated through the divination method known as the science of sand. The driving question
for this project, “Where are the female prophets?” serves as the catalyst for generating narratives. By reviving the 7th-century Islamic method of divination, the science of sand, this project builds on narrative possibilities generated through divination.
It decolonizes the linear narration of time by blurring the line between present, past and future. This research is its own living archive, holding the interviewees’ stories, dreams and prophecies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Shirin Fahimi</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> is a digital media artist based in Ontario, born in Iran. She investigates the colonial dichotomies of rationalism and superstition, as well as the
ways in which women negotiate visibility in the political and celestial realms. Her research is influenced by Islamic mysticism and magic in Iranian society and diasporic communities. She uses divination as a form of archiving, storing knowledge, making accessible
visible and invisible worlds, and documenting the past, present and future.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Shirin Fahimi</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> is presented in partnership with
<a href="https://www.cafka.org/">CAFKA23: Stay With Me</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">ADMIT EVERYONE</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><br>
University of Waterloo Art Gallery<br>
East Campus Hall, Room 1239<br>
519.888.4567 ext. 33575<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">CONTACT</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><br>
Ivan Jurakic, Director/Curator<br>
519.888.4567 ext. 46741<br>
<a href="mailto:ijurakic@uwaterloo.ca" title="mailto:ijurakic@uwaterloo.ca">ijurakic@uwaterloo.ca</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">HOURS</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><br>
Wednesday to Saturday 12-5 pm<br>
Or by appointment<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">MOBILITY</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><br>
Ground floor entry<br>
Automated doors available at Fine Arts entrance<br>
Wide pathways<br>
Accessible washrooms on ground level<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">DRIVING</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><br>
263 Phillip Street, Waterloo<br>
East Campus Hall (ECH) is located adjacent to Engineering 6 (E6)<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">PARKING</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><br>
Visitor Parking is available in Lot B beside Engineering 6 (E6) for a flat rate of $5<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">MAILING</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><br>
University of Waterloo Art Gallery<br>
200 University Avenue West<br>
Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3G1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><img border="0" width="600" height="52" style="width:6.25in;height:.5416in" id="Picture_x0020_6" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D993CC.F31CE970"></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#7F7F7F">Image credits and descriptions:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#7F7F7F"> 1)
<b>Brent Garbett</b>, <i>Stumps</i> (installation detail), 2023, oil on panel, various dimensions. Image courtesy the artist.
<b>Description:</b> Multiple oil paintings of tree stumps are displayed hung on a wall salon-style . 2)
<b>Shirin Fahimi</b>, <i>II0I I0I0 (Umm al Raml tracing the dots)</i>, 2023, digital video. Image courtesy the artist.
<b>Description</b>: An image of the artist’s digital avatar amidst a sea of sand surrounded by floating graphics depicting Arabic binary code.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#7F7F7F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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