[2] Haig Aivazian. Episode 1: Home Alone (still), 2022. [3] Adelita Husni Bey. Agency, 2014. series of five photographs, “Activists,” chromogenic print, 180 x 135 cm.
Exhibition Opening
Ghazaleh Avarzamani, Haig Aivazian + Adelita Husni Bey
June 4
5-9 PM
Please join us on Thursday, June 4, from 5-9 PM, as we celebrate the opening of three solo exhibitions, Ghazaleh Avarzamani: Churn, Earn, Burn and then Return, Haig Aivazian: You May Own the Lanterns, but We Have the Light, and Adelita Husni Bey: Agency.
Together, these exhibitions examine how systems of power are (re)produced, maintained, enacted, and resisted, whether through surveillance, collective political rehearsal, or the invisible social structures that colour and contour everyday life.
Doors
5:00 PMRemarks
7:00 PM | AtriumGalleries Close
9:00 PM
FREE to the public. No registration is required.
This exhibition opening is presented in collaboration with Free First Thursday.
About the Artists
Ghazaleh Avarzamani
(she/her)
Ghazaleh Avarzamani’s research aims at revealing and unsettling the often invisible social hierarchies that govern our lives. Through her practice, she explores the fallacies and inequities in our inherited knowledge and manuals. By creating visual narratives that simultaneously deconstruct and reconstruct time and space, she aims to reconfigure materials to highlight dysfunctionality and failure, utilizing collective human memory and knowledge that is often taken for granted. She reveals the extraordinary about the ordinary, and seeks ways to represent the otherwise taken-for-granted.
Avarzamani holds an MFA from Central Saint Martins, London. Her work has been shown across a wide range of international venues, including Hayward Gallery, Delfina Foundation (London, UK - 2025), Dhaka Art Summit (2023), Aga Khan Museum (2021), MOCA Toronto (2021), Toronto Biennial (2022), Calgary Contemporary (2025), Rockefeller Foundation (2024), and Meet Factory (2023), among others.
Her work is in private and public collections, including the Art Gallery of Ontario, Google, Rockefeller Centre, Arsenal Contemporary, MOCA Toronto, TD Art Collection and Red Mansion.
Photo by: Daniele Molajoli
Haig Aivazian
(he/him)
Haig Aivazian’s practice grapples with the metamorphic nature of three technologies: artificial light, computation and law. He examines the ways in which the administration of light and darkness makes and unmakes persons, and transforms material conditions of architecture and geography – how they are inhabited and moved through by humans, animals, objects, machines and other strange creatures.
Photo by: Matteo Cattabriga
Adelita Husni Bey
(she/her)
Adelita Husni Bey is an artist and pedagogue whose practice draws on anarcho-collectivism, theater, and legal anthropology. She organizes workshops and produces artworks using non-competitive pedagogical models within the framework of contemporary art. Involving activists, architects, jurists, schoolchildren, poets, and educators, her work creates temporary sites for collective study and rehearsal. She represented Italy at the 57th Venice Biennale (2017) and has exhibited in New Photography, MoMA, New York (2018); The Eighth Climate, 11th Gwangju Biennale (2015); and Really Useful Knowledge, Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid (2014). A 2020-2022 Vera List Center Fellow, her research examined how pandemics reshape social relations. For Sharjah Biennial 16 (2025) she produced Like a Flood, a film installation on water extraction, infrastructural afterlives, and adaptability. She is currently developing a long-term research and performance project on Porto Marghera's petrochemical plant, toxic legacies, and citizen science and has recently undertaken a residency at Ocean Space, Venice.
