The Safarani Sisters
Body Double
Farhang Foundation proudly presents
THE SAFARANI SISTERS:
BODY DOUBLE
A conversation with artists Bahareh Safarani, Farzaneh Safarani, and independent curator Roya Khadjavi who will be joined in conversation with Morris Museum’s Chief Curator Ronald T. Labaco.
The Morris Museum is pleased to present BODY DOUBLE: The Safarani Sisters, featuring the work of identical twin Iranian artists Bahareh and Farzaneh Safarani in their first solo museum exhibition.
Now on exhibition through April 24, 2022
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About Bahareh Safarani and Farzaneh Safarani
Visual Artists – Bahareh and Farzaneh Safarani (born 1990) are Iranian collaborator twin visual artists who live in Massachusetts. Known primarily for their innovative video-painting and video-performance arts.
The two sisters make dramatic compositions of themselves as the subjects to explore to sense of self in relation to the other. The Safarani sisters choose to incorporate particular themes and symbols in their work. A major theme that the sisters address is one of identity—as twins, as individuals.
About Ronald T. Labaco
Director of Exhibitions and Collections/Chief Curator – Ronald T. Labaco is Director of Exhibitions and Collections of the Morris Museum in Morristown, New Jersey, with a multidisciplinary interest at the intersection of art, design, and craft. As Chief Curator of the Morris Museum he has organized the exhibitions Body Double: The Safarani Sisters (2021), W. Carl Burger: Mastery of the Medium (2020), and Aerosol: Graffiti / Street Art / New Jersey / Now (2019), among others. He has held curatorial positions with the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. His publications include Out of Hand: Materializing the Postdigital (2013), The Allure of the Automobile: Driving in Style, 1930-1965 (2010), and Ettore Sottsass: Architect and Designer (2006).
About Roya Khadjavi
Independent Curator – Roya Khadjavi is an independent curator and cultural producer based in New York. She has largely focused on the work of young Iranian artists working both in Iran and beyond its borders, seeking not only to support their artistic endeavors but to also facilitate awareness and cultural dialogue between artistic communities.
Since 2008, she has actively led exhibition committee efforts around the art of the Middle East for institutions including the Guggenheim Museum and the Asia Society, where she sat on the steering committee of the critically acclaimed exhibit Iran Modern (2013). Khadjavi co-founded the Institute of International Education’s Iran Opportunities Fund and served as president of the board of New York based non-profit Art in General.
For her pioneering efforts to advance, support, and promote international education, she has been honored with the Women’s Global Leadership Award by the Institute of International Education and an Order of Academic Palms (Chevalier dans L’Ordre des Palmes Académiques) by the French Minister of Education.
