Ala Ebtekar is joined by his mother to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of NASA’s Apollo 11 moon landing with a reading and to discuss its relation to Thirty-six Views of the Moon, 2019, on view in What is an edition, anyway?. The work is the Spring edition of a series in four seasons that takes its cue from a twelfth century poem by Omar Khayyam that imagines humans as the objects of the Moon’s omnipresent gaze. Using photographic negatives of the Moon provided by California’s Lick Observatory Archives, Ebtekar treated book and pamphlet pages from ten centuries of texts referencing the moon and night sky with photographic chemicals then exposed them to moonlight.
McEvoy Foundation for the Arts’ free Gallery Sessions invite artists and curators to explore and contemplate their works on view with visitors in an intimate setting.
This event takes place during the 2019 San Francisco Art Book Fair.
1150 25th St America/New_York publicGallery Sessions: Ala Ebtekar
Ala Ebtekar is joined by his mother to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of NASA’s Apollo 11 moon landing with a reading and to discuss its relation to Thirty-six Views of the Moon, 2019, on view in What is an edition, anyway?. The work is the Spring edition of a series in four seasons that takes its cue from a twelfth century poem by Omar Khayyam that imagines humans as the objects of the Moon’s omnipresent gaze. Using photographic negatives of the Moon provided by California’s Lick Observatory Archives, Ebtekar treated book and pamphlet pages from ten centuries of texts referencing the moon and night sky with photographic chemicals then exposed them to moonlight.
McEvoy Foundation for the Arts’ free Gallery Sessions invite artists and curators to explore and contemplate their works on view with visitors in an intimate setting.
This event takes place during the 2019 San Francisco Art Book Fair.