Ghazaleh Avarzamani's practice seeks to challenge hegemonic power structures in knowledge production by focusing on a range of spaces and methodologies that govern interactions and play. She frequently uses signs made familiar by popular culture and materials associated with everyday life - such as board games, origami and play modules - to test the limits of knowledge in terms of reality and play. His recent works explore the paradoxical realities behind educational methodologies with reference to play systems and cultural manuals. The game is activated as a complex process of social and political influence carrying radical possibilities of subversion and pleasure.
Born in Tehran in 1980, Ghazaleh Avarzamani is currently based in Toronto and holds an MA in Visual Arts from Central Saint Martins, London. Recipient of the 2013 Red Mansion Award and winner of the Ontario Association of Art Galleries' Best Monographic Exhibition Award in 2019, her work has also been featured in several exhibitions nationally and internationally, including at the Koffler Gallery (Toronto). , Galerie Ab-Anbar (Tehran), Asia House (London), Light Gallery (London), Frieze Sculpture Park (London), Bocconi Gallery (Milan) and at the Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium Museum (Norway) to name a few. His work will be presented in the fall of 2021 at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Toronto as well as in a solo exhibition at the Aga Khan Museum (Toronto).
