NeueHouse Art presents
The Truth Has Four Legs
Solo Exhibition by Hadi Fallahpisheh
Co-presented with New American Economy
On View
September 9, 2019 – January 6, 2020
Hadi Fallahpisheh’s photographs result from intense and complex actionist treatments of paper, chemistry and objects in the darkroom. Fallahpisheh’s photographs require a series of chance operations and assemblies carried out in darkness, writing with flashlights and markers, layering transparencies, taping and un-taping sheets of photo-sensitive material in advance of chemical baths. Often scaled to larger than human size, the finished objects contain parafictional narratives of daily life in a complex combination with photographic imagery and painterly gesture; all traces of the physical and interventionist performance of their creation. Often scaled to rugs the finished objects contain narratives of appropriated traditional and local characters, and all the traces of this physical and interventionist performance.
This new work from a series entitled The Truth Has Four Legs is a part-diaristic, part-fictional project, about a year he spent alone in 2017 in a remote town in Upstate, NY. Through a process of cameraless photography made in his garage darkroom, the artist confronts reductive public perceptions about his identity, and a social climate informed by anti-immigrant policies. Tracing his encounters with found images, in the photographs, gestures of the artist’s own body and written inscriptions made with light, appear phantom-like on the page.
About Hadi Fallahpisheh
Hadi Fallahpisheh (b. 1987, Tehran, Iran) works primarily with photography, as well as performance and installation to destabilize visions of a stable and singular subject. Often commenting on conditions of displacement, his work questions the ability of representation to convey truths, revealing the gaps between public perception and personal experience. Fallahpisheh moved to New York in 2014, and received an MFA in Photography from Bard College in 2016. He is a graduate of the Creative Practices Program in Photography at the ICP, New York. He has presented work at venues including PAGE Gallery, Kai Matsumaiya, Off Vendome, ICP, and Callicoon Fine Arts, and in Tehran at Delgosha Gallery, Dastan Gallery and Maryam Harandi Gallery, among others.
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Special thanks to Artadia.
