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If Need Be
- Artist
- Pejvak
- Price
- $60.00
- Date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Building Fictions
- Format
- Catalogues
- ISBN
- 978-90-833756-1-8
- Size
- 23 × 30 × 3 cm
- Length
- 316 pp
- Genre
- Environment, Contemporary Art, Social Practice
If Need Be presents a constellation of stories about water scarcity in the arid regions of Central Asia, ancient Persia, and the American Great Plains. Artist duo Pejvak strings together a series of hallucinatory events involving artificial glaciers, dams and other human attempts to bring water under control. Giving equal weight to gossip, legend and historical fact, Pejvak takes the role of an unreliable narrator, situating the struggle for water within the struggle for the historical record.
This publication was made as a continuation of If Need Be, an exhibition by Pejvak at Z33 House for Contemporary Art, Design & Architecture, Hasselt, Belgium (12.06. – 22.08.2021). The exhibition was curated by Tim Roerig.
Design: Rudy Guedj and Timur Akhmetov
Contributing authors: Anisa Sabiri, Distributed Cognition Cooperative (Anna Engelhardt & Sasha Shestakova), Benjamin Filler, Irakli Qolbaia, Dina Cheraghvand, Farshad Tavakoli, Masoud Borbor and Pejvak
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