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(Left: Quinha Faria, Right: Elizabeth Arzani)
Elizabeth Arzani + Quinha Faria
MARCH 1 — 30, 2025
Opening Saturday, March 1, 5-8 PM
Hours: SAT-SUN 12-5 PM & By Appointment
ARTIST TALK: March 30th
Carnation Contemporary presents new paintings, print media, and sculptures by Elizabeth Arzani and Quinha Faria. Their collaborative exhibit, File Not Found, delves into themes of missing links, deleted files, and off-line presence. Drawing inspiration from the language and infrastructure of technology, Faria and Arzani explore what happens when connections are interrupted or lost. Their work proposes a new lexicon for relationships, memory, and networks of care, where gaps of information hold space for transformation and new ways of relating. Throughout the exhibition, lines loop and interlock, creating outlines, openings, and holes. Subtraction and addition at the same time. How does absence create a kind of presence? And who is around to notice?
For Arzani, mining an archive of familial love letters and diaries alongside her own sketchbook collections connect idiosyncratic gestures found in handwriting and drawing. With works on paper and ceramic sculptures, she imagines a hole as a place to care for a question; an entrance or exit to climb in and out of when looking for language.
For Faria, a materially driven practice emphasizes the presence of her hand as a marker of touch, healing, labor, and connection. She crochets sisal twine, carves wooden structures, felts wool enclosures, and deconstructs hospital scrubs to reassemble a new foundation. Through these intuitive processes, Faria draws attention to shifting conditions and various forms of support— some overlooked, others revealed, and a few more quietly sensed.
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Portland, OR 97217