Mona Hatoum: Mitra Tabrizian

Adel Abidin Dept: While the group exhibit, which features 16 artists including Farhad Moshiri, Mona Hatoum, Adel Abidin and Mitra Tabrizian, focuses on the notion of voyage, it does not stop at external travels, according to Globe and Mail. And then you end up with very existential, philosophical tone of life itself as a voyage, says Daftari, who adds that the exhibition also dispels myths and stereotypes about Middle Eastern life and art. But the public is free to pick their own itinerary and A scintillating world map made from thousands of Swarovski crystals imagines a world without borders; a beat-up Toyota Corona piled high with a family belongings awaits departure; a travel kiosk welcomes visitors to explore a vacation in wartime Baghdad; and a traditional Persian carpet inspired by modern-day Tehran weaves images of fighting in the streets, young people partying and bureaucrats at their desks. You start from an outside view of the world, then you land down into cities, and then you move beyond, into sort of more personal or internal private imaginings, says curator Fereshteh Daftari, a former curator at the MoMA in New York and an expert in Middle Eastern art. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.