All Water Has A Perfect Memory
2019
Bahar Behbahani
Brooklyn, New York
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About Bahar Behbahani
Bahar Behbahani's research-based practice approaches landscape as a metaphor for politics and poetics. In 2019, All Water Has A Perfect Memory, his large community sculpture, was exhibited by Wave Hill in New York City. Behbahani's work was featured in the solo exhibition Let the Garden Eram Flourish, curated by Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi, at the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College in 2017. His Garden Coup series was exhibited at the 11th Shanghai Biennale in 2016. Behbahani's work was also shown at the 02 Lahore Biennale, the 7th Moscow Biennale, the 18th Biennale of Sydney and the 10th Sharjah Biennale. His short films have been shown at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum and the Tribeca Film Festival. Behbahani has received a two-year fellowship at the Drawing Center (2018-2020); a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, Peterborough, NH (2017); and an Art Omi International Artist Residency, Ghent, NY (2013), among others. In 2019, Behbahani received a Creative Capital award for an anticipated project, Ispahan Flowers Only Once, a public garden inspired by Persian garden design, philosophy, plants and flora, which will bring together marginalized people to participate and reactivate invisible histories by gathering and gardening.
Program Participation
Painters & Sculptors Grant, 2020
Website / Social Links
Over the past few years, I have contemplated projects exercising the principles of the Persian garden through a historical labyrinth to understand the intersections and interactions of its pragmatic and spiritual meaning. As a transplanted artist, I am interested in the social history of plants, our ancestral knowledge, and the connection between climatic exile and water management.”
