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Installation view, Y.Z. Kami: Light, Gaze, Presence, Museo di Palazzo Vecchio Museum, Florence, Italy, February 17–September 24, 2023. Artwork © Y.Z. Kami. Photo: Serge Domingie

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Y.Z. Kami
Light, Gaze, Presence

February 17–September 24, 2023
Various venues in Florence, Italy
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Light, Gaze, Presence presents a selection of works by Y.Z. Kami across four locations in Florence: Museo Novecento, Museo di Palazzo Vecchio, Museo degli Innocenti, and Abbazia di San Miniato al Monte. The multipart exhibition explores the pictorial universe of Kami’s paintings while placing them in dialogue with masterworks of the Italian Renaissance.

Installation view, Y.Z. Kami: Light, Gaze, Presence, Museo di Palazzo Vecchio Museum, Florence, Italy, February 17–September 24, 2023. Artwork © Y.Z. Kami. Photo: Serge Domingie

Installation view, Y.Z. Kami: De forma silenciosa/In a Silent Way, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain, June 4, 2022–January 22, 2023. Artwork © Y.Z. Kami. Photo: Santiago Santos

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De forma silenciosa/In a Silent Way

June 4, 2022–January 22, 2023
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain
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De forma silenciosa/In a Silent Way is a mid-career survey of more than thirty years of work by Y.Z. Kami. The exhibition features portraits by the artist; images of buildings, both sacred and ordinary; a sculptural installation of loose bricks inscribed with texts; and recent dreamlike abstractions. Steeped in the traditions of the antique art of Egyptian Fayum portraits and ancient Persian poetry, while influenced by the writings of French moral philosopher Emmanuel Levinas, Kami’s works look at bodies in ethereal calm, with a meditative and philosophical assessment of outward and inner being.

Installation view, Y.Z. Kami: De forma silenciosa/In a Silent Way, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain, June 4, 2022–January 22, 2023. Artwork © Y.Z. Kami. Photo: Santiago Santos

Installation view, Burning at the Edges, Longlati Foundation, Shanghai, November 9, 2022–January 15, 2023. Artwork © Y.Z. Kami

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Y.Z. Kami in
Burning at the Edges

November 9, 2022–January 15, 2023
Longlati Foundation, Shanghai
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Featuring a number of large-scale works recently acquired by Longlati Foundation, Burning at the Edges explores minority and multi-minority cultures. The exhibition examines how three artists—Y.Z. Kami, Ibrahim Mahama, and Adam Pendleton—transform sacred architecture, globalized commodities, propaganda, and graffiti texts, as well as the meaning of fluid identities and the inherent conflicts within.

Installation view, Burning at the Edges, Longlati Foundation, Shanghai, November 9, 2022–January 15, 2023. Artwork © Y.Z. Kami

Y.Z. Kami, Black Dome, 2015 © Y.Z. Kami

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Y.Z. Kami in
Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians

September 10, 2021–May 8, 2022
Asia Society, New York
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Drawn from the Mohammed Afkhami Collection, Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians presents works by more than twenty artists from Iran and its diaspora. Revising traditional aesthetics and probing subjects such as gender identity, war, peace, religion, and spirituality, the works, which date from 1998 to the present, are realized in a variety of mediums, from painting and sculpture to photography and video installation. Through open critique or subterfuge, humor, spirituality, and poetry, the artists overcome the restrictions and pressures that have affected Iranians in the past quarter century. This exhibition originated at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto. Work by Y.Z. Kami is included.

Y.Z. Kami, Black Dome, 2015 © Y.Z. Kami

Y.Z. Kami, Chartres III, 2018 © Y.Z. Kami

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Y.Z. Kami in
The Spark Is You: Parasol unit in Venice

May 9–November 23, 2019
Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello, Venice
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In celebration of its fifteenth anniversary, London’s Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art presents an exhibition of works by nine contemporary Iranian artists in Venice. The Spark Is You has at its heart the need to develop mutual respect and understanding between different nations and cultures. The exhibiting artists, all of whom look beyond the ordinary, were selected for the affinity with openness, respect, and human interconnectedness presented in their practice. Work by Y.Z. Kami is included.

Y.Z. Kami, Chartres III, 2018 © Y.Z. Kami

Y.Z. Kami, Black Dome, 2015 © Y.Z. Kami

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Y.Z. Kami in
Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians

July 1–September 24, 2017
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
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Contemporary Iranian artists have used power, humor, mysticism, and poetry to both openly and subversively critique subjects such as gender, politics, war, religion, and spirituality. While some of the works in Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians reflect the sociopolitical tensions of the past twenty-five years, others transcend them to create all-embracing spaces free of strife. This show is traveling from the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto. Work by Y.Z. Kami is included.

Y.Z. Kami, Black Dome, 2015 © Y.Z. Kami

Installation view, Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, February 4–June 4, 2017. Photo: Janet Kimber

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Y.Z. Kami in
Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians

February 4–June 4, 2017
Aga Khan Museum, Toronto
www.agakhanmuseum.org

Contemporary Iranian artists have used power, humor, mysticism, and poetry to both openly and subversively critique subjects such as gender, politics, war, religion, and spirituality. While some of the works in Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians reflect the sociopolitical tensions of the past twenty-five years, others transcend them to create all-embracing spaces free of strife. Work by Y.Z. Kami is included.

Installation view, Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, February 4–June 4, 2017. Photo: Janet Kimber