Artist Walkthrough: Systema Naturae

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Join us for an in-person walkthrough of the Main Gallery exhibition Systema Naturae with artist Anahita Norouzi.

In Systema Naturae, Norouzi incorporates a series of anthotype banners, monoprints, glass and painting to build a composite installation that investigates the role of botany in the commercial and territorial expansion of colonial powers in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Anahita Norouzi is a multidisciplinary artist originally from Tehran and based in Montreal and holds degrees in Fine Arts and Graphic Design from Concordia University. Articulated across sculpture, installation, photography and video Norouzi's practice is research-driven, instigated by marginalized histories and the legacies of botanical explorations and archeological excavations, particularly when scientific research became entangled in the colonial exploitation of non-Western geographies.

Norouzi has exhibited at BIENALESUR, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Royal Ontario Museum, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec and National Gallery of Canada. She has received the Grantham Foundation Award, the Liz Crockford Artist Fund Award, the Vermont Studio Center Merit, the Contemporary Art Award of Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Impression residency at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Magic of Persia Contemporary Art Prize.