Maryam Monalisa Gharavi: Yet Where the Danger Dwells Opening

KODA presents Yet Where the Dan­ger Dwells, a solo sur­vey exhi­bi­tion with artist Maryam Mon­al­isa Ghar­avi span­ning high­lights from a decade of work in film/​video, per­for­mance, draw­ing, sculp­tur­al instal­la­tion, and text. Fea­tured works were often pro­duced in ​“soft” non-hier­ar­chi­cal series – where a film/​video becomes a draw­ing sequence which becomes an artist book. Gharavi’s prac­tice has inno­vat­ed with­in three ele­ments of human knowl­edge sys­tems — vis­i­bil­i­ty, lan­guage, secu­ri­ty — because their con­tra­dic­tions, mys­ter­ies, and betray­als have a capac­i­ty to make a dou­ble move. The open­ing will also fea­ture the debut of édi­tions océan, Gharavi’s artist-run t‑shirt pub­lish­ing agency. Lim­it­ed edi­tions of t‑shirts designed by Ghar­avi and Ams­ter­dam/Beirut-based graph­ic design­er Farah Fayyad will be avail­able for purchase.

KODA is one of the 2025 Gov­er­nors Island Arts Orga­ni­za­tions in Res­i­dence.