ZAHRA KOMEYLIAN   

WATER OVER MARSH (2022)
TWO PASSAGES (2021)
RECIPES FOR RADICAL REST AND SLOWNESS (2020)
GROUNDWORK (2020) 
NOTHING IS A HOLE IN ITS OWN SKIN (2020)
CONTAINER FOR A PRECARIOUS RECORD (2019) PLACES WHERE THINGS HAD BEEN PUT BECAUSE THEY HAD BEEN VIOLENTLY DISPLACED, AND PLACES WHERE THINGS FOUND THEIR NATURAL GROUND AND STABILITY (2018- 2019)
ABOUT/ CV    

water over marsh 

in Only Reliable Narrators, a group exhibition curated by Miles Rufelds
The Plumb, presented by 2022 Contact Photo Festival, May - June 2022, Toronto
with Jenna Bliss, Jennifer Laiwint, Erdem Taşdelen and Andrew Davis

Only Reliable Narrators contemplates the critical ways that narratives and stories work to structure collective ideas of truth, history, power, science, self, and hope. In the artists’ works, fictitious personae, imaginary archetypes, and speculative histories guide audiences towards familiar, affective truths, while factual records and normative myths break down under the demands of their presumed authority. The works employ a range of experimental narrative strategies, alternately playing with the line between fact and fiction, and interrogating the norms governing the distinction at its base.

An exhibition print with an essay by Mel Mikhail and index of works can be found here. 


Milieu (2022), installation detail: gifted print catalogue, painters tape, silk threads, collapsed drywall ephemera from durational performance work, nothing is a hole in its own skin (2020).





















































































With thanks to the Ontario Arts Council.