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The Luggage Store

January 18 - February 24, 2013

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1007 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94103
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Dates: January 18 – Febuary 23, 2013 Opening Reception: Friday, January 18, 2013, 6pm to 8pm The Luggage Store Gallery 1007 Market Street (nr. 6th St.) San Francisco, CA The Luggage Store is pleased to present Resistance, a solo exhibition of new work by Taraneh Hemami. Please join us on Friday, January 18, from 6-8 p.m. for the exhibition opening and to meet the artist. Resistance surfaces the underground visual culture of protest, making visible the otherwise absent histories of dissent in Iran and its diaspora through the production of collected and found historical archives, hand-crafted replications of a “social media” before the word existed. Resistance builds on Hemami’s Theory of Survival, collected historical archives from local communities and the web of decades of otherwise banned and censored print matter belonging to the Iranian Students Association of Northern California active from 1964-1984. The material reflects the political sensibilities of the Iranian student organizations worldwide in books, periodicals, newspapers published both inside and outside of Iran. Resistance invites us to see its reflection in today’s uprisings in the Middle East and at home.