Main Gallery
January 8 to February 26, 2011

Matilda Aslizadeh: Phantom Smile

Matilda Aslizadeh’s Phantom Smile presents a suite of six fictional female faces, each in an Edenic, misty fog of celebrity and allure. Just as individuals are a DNA blend, Aslizadeh’s creations exist in a liminal, blended state between nature and culture that adds a new twist to the history of the photographic portrait. The projection of beauty in these seemingly natural, but over-developed smiles is perhaps Hollywood’s greatest gift to popular culture. Aslizadeh’s phantom smiles mirror cinema’s performative artificiality, and reference projects such as Cindy Sherman’s, while providing a corrective to the overly elaborate schemes some have employed to make basic points about the nature of identity.

Opening Reception: Saturday January 8, 3–5 pm

Please join us for an artist talk with Matilda Aslizadeh: Monday January 10th, 7pm, at Emily Carr University of Art & Design, Room 301 (South Building, lecture hall). Co-sponsored by ECUAD and the SFU Gallery.

Eight lunchtime talks with Bill Jeffries
Tuesday to Friday, January 11 to 14, 12:05 and 12:35.

FREE PARKING! January 8 only. A printout of this page is your parking pass in any Visitor Lot at SFU (face up on dashboard or hand to parking attendant).

Golden 4, 2010, Lightjet print, 48” x 72”. Courtesy of Pari Nadimi Gallery.