Offsite: Babak Golkar

Vancouver-based artist Babak Golkar presents Time To Let Go, an installation of large terracotta pots that negotiate between dichotomies of art and craft as well as modern reasoning and traditional mysticism. The project emerges from the artist’s interest in spatial analysis and its relationship to communal areas and public territory. Rather than presenting static objects, Golkar encourages viewers to interact with his sculptures and scream into them, transforming everyday anxieties into play. Distinctly designed to soften sound, these vessels provide a unique location for viewers to voice their unexpressed emotions and release everyday pressures.

Born in the United States, raised in Tehran and having lived between Canada and the Middle East since 1996, Babak Golkar has developed bodies of work, which navigate and negotiate the space between cultural and socio-economical registers. His research-based art practice is centred on seemingly contradictory forms, shapes and material.