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UW Fine Arts MFA Thesis One: Behnaz Fatemi | Jill Smith</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;">University of Waterloo Art Gallery</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Behnaz Fatemi</b></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><i>We will lose our beloveds — ما عزیزانمان را از دست خواهیم داد
</i>is a body of interdisciplinary works which uses feminist autotheory to transcribe lived experience under the Iranian theocracy. The works highlight the complexities of migration: what self-exile feels like, along with my connection to the greater Iranian
diaspora after moving to Canada in 2018. Artmaking allows me to unpack the emotional landscape of my in-betweenness (neither here nor there), to process grief and loss (both personal and collective), while also pacifying my quest for belonging. Using paper,
graphite, and my body in nonverbal dance and performance, I use mark-making as a methodology for healing, a strategy for resistance, and a source of agency while inhabiting the discomfort of this in-betweenness.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Behnaz Fatemi is an Iranian interdisciplinary artist based in Waterloo who investigates diaspora and trauma through performance, drawing, installation,
and video. Her artworks have been exhibited in Iran, Canada, and the United States. Highlights of her time spent in the Kitchener-Waterloo area include Kitchener Artist in Residence (2020-21), Waterloo Region Arts Awardee (2020), and CAFKA biennial artist
(2023). Fatemi gratefully acknowledges the support of the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund and Pat the Dog Theatre Creation.
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<b>Jill Smith</b></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>kupferschmidt / kupferschmid / kupferschmidte </b></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><i>kupferschmidt / kupferschmid / kupferschmidte</i> is a sculpture and installation-based exhibition which uses materiality and autobiography to question
the role and success of self-preservation amid a disruption to identity. The works in this exhibition use materials including those associated with Jewish culture to demonstrate the paradoxical nature of preservation. Delicate jewellery chains come together
in messy knots as a connection to what came before. Pickles are crystallized in a moment of in-between as both their life and death are elongated. Falling, folding, and slumping glass jars appear to be in states of becoming and undoing. past / present / future.
tethered / suspension / potential. In this exhibition notions of time and authenticity are disrupted by the tension between desire for preservation and inevitable failure. The works, surreal and absurd, aim to answer the question: is true preservation even
possible?</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Jill Smith is a queer, Jewish multi-disciplinary artist born and based in Tkaronto/Toronto. Working primarily in sculpture, her
practice explores archival properties of materials, objects, and rituals. Among others, she has exhibited at Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto, ON; Forest City Gallery, London, ON; and has been artist-in-residence at Gibraltar Point, Toronto, ON; and AGA LAB,
Amsterdam, NL. Smith has received grants from the Social Sciences and Research Council (SSHRC) and Toronto Arts Council.
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University of Waterloo Art Gallery<br>
East Campus Hall, Room 1239<br>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><b>CONTACT</b><br>
Ivan Jurakic, Director/Curator<br>
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Wednesday to Saturday 12-5 pm<br>
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Ground floor entry<br>
Automated door at Fine Arts entrance<br>
Accessible washrooms on ground level</span></p>
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263 Phillip Street, Waterloo<br>
East Campus Hall (ECH) is located adjacent to Engineering 6 (E6)<br>
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Visitor Parking available in B Lot (E6) or Q Lot (EC1) for a flat rate of $7 as of May 1</span></p>
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University of Waterloo Art Gallery<br>
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<span style="color: rgb(127, 127, 127);"><b>Image Credits</b> (top): <b>Behnaz Fatemi</b>,
<i>Rubbing and Remembering</i> (detail), 2023-24, graphite and found objects. Photo: courtesy of the artist. (bottom)
<b>Jill Smith</b>, <i>glimpse of potential </i>(detail), 2024, glass, copper. Photo: courtesy of the artist.
<b>Image description:</b> (top) A handbag with tag attached rests beside a pair of women’s dress shoes on a dark background. Everything has been meticulously drawn over in graphite. (bottom) Close-up of an antique copper key covered in crystals, wedged inside
of a partially melted glass jar.</span></p>
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