Just as LA celebrates its annual fair week, the pinnacle of the commercial art ecosystem, several shows across the city take a different approach, offering alternative creative visions and celebrating the abject, the margins, the forgotten. Dorian Wood turns the daily stream of injustices and inequalities into ghoulish delights, while Raul Baltazar sends up colonizers with a bit of Indigenous Mesoamerican inspiration. Queerteñx champions all types of borders, while Boundless/Binding highlights female artists from Southwest Asia and North Africa reflecting social change. Jennifer West’s analog film works bring a punk, experimental edge to cinema, and a solo show of drawings by Dorothy Hood aims to restore her legacy.
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Boundless/Binding
Boundless/Binding is a group exhibition showcasing 15 female artists based in Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA), as well as throughout the global diaspora. Co-curated by Subliminal Projects and Emergeast, an online platform supporting contemporary artists from the SWANA region, the artists in the show draw on traditional themes and narratives while reflecting the historic social and cultural upheavals taking place in some parts of the region. Participating artists include Aliyah Alawadhi, Bouthayna Al Muftah, Elham Etemadi, Hana Shahnavaz, Maliheh Zafarnezhad, Mays AlMoosawi, Noor Abuissa, and Shirin Sahba.
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