Programming
Khosro Berahmandi
Aeonic trembling
Installation-performance
Artist Khosro Berahmandi's exhibition reflects on the place of silence and light in creation. Tremblement d'Éon opens with an extended performance (21 hours) in which the artist isolates himself in a cell-box to create.
The basis of "Tremblement d'éon" lies in my previous experiences, in the thoughts and reflections they have left me; the cognitive struggle and its persistence in my memory have enabled them to find a form of existence and expression through visual creation and audible silence. These sources, both internal and external, become the semantic surrender of a reality objectified through the pulsations of my interiority. Affective crushing as spherical constraint, as global limitation deriving from totalitarianism, and opposition as bumper supporting the structures of obstructive ephemerality engendered by these limitations. "Tremblement d'éon" would be the transposed mode of my inner refuge, my interiority as narrative.
One day, I found myself born. After I was born, they said it was good.
Now I'm living a life and they say it's good. Between then and now, I say my life has been.... I don't know.
Khosro Berahmandi is currently studying visual arts at Concordia University, and has produced a number of performances and exhibitions, including the following: With-in the Insofar (installation), Montreal June 1989, The Contextual Definition (exhibition, performance) at Centre d'Art de Diffusion, Montreal November 1988, The Reversed Reason (performance) as part of the Third Forest City Art Gallery Performance Festival, London Ontario, April 1988, Vertical Integrity (exhibition), November 1987 and Blue Fly (performance), October 1987, at the Hillary Gallery, University of Western Ontario.