Generatrix - Anne-Marie Oliver

March 8, 2021

In this matter of the visible, everything is a trap, and in a strange way—as is very well shown by Maurice Merleau-Ponty in the title of one of the chapters of Le Visible et l’invisible—entrelacs (in-terlacing, intertwining). There is not a single one of the divisions, a single one of the double sides that the function of vision presents, that is not manifested to us as a labyrinth.

Minh Nguyen: Tannaz Farsi’s Agents of Dispersal

January 29, 2018

Published January 16, 2018 in Art Practical

Inside Linfield Gallery, skyward-jutting tulips in sheer sacks of soil cluster together. Blur one’s eyes and the sight becomes strata of hues: the chocolate brown of mulch, the jewel green of leaves, the flowers’ loud carmine, fire-toned like a polluted sunrise. For the 2017 exhibition The Points of Departure at Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon, Tannaz Farsi transplanted one thousand tulips indoors to bloom at the spring equinox, which marks Norouz, Iranian New Year.