AMIR H. FALLAH: THE FALLACY OF BORDERS
LOS ANGELES— Farhang Foundation is proud to join the Fowler Museum at UCLA in presenting Amir H. Fallah: The Fallacy of Borders, the artist’s first museum exhibition in Los Angeles. A celebration of Fallah’s vibrant maximalist style, more than 25 works of painting, sculpture, and stained glass contend with urgent themes of cultural inheritance and identity formation.
Born in 1979 in Tehran at the height of the Islamic Revolution, Fallah and his family moved several times before he arrived in the U.S. at the age of seven. Throughout his career, he has mined intimate aspects of his immigrant experience to forge an alternative portraiture, one that resists reductive characterization. This exhibition highlights the visual strategies and influences that underpin Fallah’s approach, which blends elements of his Iranian American heritage with those of other global traditions and their adaptations in Los Angeles’s diasporic communities.
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