Reconstructing a recurring dream
Narges Noroozi
with
Lusi Ajonjoli
BRD
Sydney Mills
Elizabeth Preger
December 19 - January 16
Windows at ArtCenter DTLA
“Something is deconstructing somewhere. It is forming a new structure. New forms come out of chaos.”
-Narges Noroozi
When the logic of intimate dreams turn outward from the interior space of sense-making, the mimetic, the uncanny and fractured images re-enter the flow of collective interpretation. Reconstructing a Recurring Dream explores cyclical invocations of construction and deconstruction, and the transitional states between security and danger, stillness and flow. On the right, Narges Noroozi restages one of her recurring dreams from this year, while in the left window, invited artists respond to her prompt with their own fever dreams and hallucinatory fantasies.
Works
Artist Bios
Narges Noroozi is a Los Angeles based artist. Her work ranges from paintings and drawings to three-dimensional assemblage and installation. Born and raised in Iran, She moved to the United States to complete her MFA in Scenic Design at California State University Long Beach. Since starting her professional journey, immigration and its components have been a large part of her artwork identity. She uses dreams and memories as inspirations to explore the poetry in displacement, relocation and rebirth. Similar to the chaotic and repetitive nature of dreams, recurrence and reappearance of some elements and material are underlying themes in her works. In recent years, she has navigated her artistic career from stage design to installations and working with unconventional materials, especially soil.
BRD is a core artist of Love’s Remedies, which holds her attention alongside a material practice focused on painting, written gesture, and the printed word. Some areas of interest include sense- and value-making systems; instances of irreconcilable difference; the domestic and private sphere; intimate bonds of duty and desire; games and child’s play, among others. She holds a dual BA and BS from DePaul University and MFA from CalArts.
Sydney Mills is an artist working within the mediums of photography, video and sculpture. She aims to create work that asks viewers to contemplate speculative fictions about the human condition and the larger humanistic, societal and psychological implications of bodily plasticity, modification and commodification.
She received her MFA in Photography & Media from California Institute of the Arts in 2018 and her BA in Fine Art from the University of Southern California in 2010. Solo and two person exhibitions include: CONSUMED and PATHOLOGICAL at CalArts, PARTS at 3001 Gallery and Station Gallery, and FANTASY IRL at Helen Lindhurst Fine Art Gallery. Mills has shown work internationally at the Institute of Contemporary Art Singapore, Semperdepot (Vienna, Austria), and Busan Photo Fair (Busan, South Korea), and in numerous group shows at Los Angeles based art spaces, including The Box, Noysky Projects, Keystone Gallery, and Monte Vista Projects. She lives and works in Los Angeles.
Elizabeth Preger creates large scale, immersive environments that utilize photography, video, sculpture and sound. Recorded interviews and oral history are integral to her practice as a way of proposing an act of collective listening while asking, “Who is talking to whom?” and “Who is listening?” Her work activates narratives around nature and people, where the subjects of her own cultural history, and the documenting and developing of relationships, are always framed in resilience. She earned a B.A. in Art from UCLA in 2010, and an M.F.A. in Photography & Media from CalArts in 2018.