Ghazaleh Avarzamani Churn, Earn, Burn and then Return

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Examining familiar objects and settings — playgrounds, board games, sport arenas — Ghazaleh Avarzamani traces the subtle architectures through which power is learned, rehearsed and maintained. What appears playful or ordinary reveals itself as something more insistent: a hostile choreography of rules, conquests and defeats insidiously shaping social and political life. Beneath the surface of games, manuals, fables, and educational references in Avarzamani’s works lie the economic, psychological and ideological structures that govern the ways in which people belong to society.Avarzamani’s installations unfold as spaces that are at once seductive and destabilizing. Familiar forms return altered, carrying a quiet sense of unease. Nursery rhymes, games and instructions no longer function as benign cultural expressions, but as mechanisms through which societies naturalize obedience, hierarchy and collective fantasy. Poetic, sarcastic and politically incisive, her work attends to the paradoxes embedded within educational methodologies, exposing how systems of control often appear in the language of entertainment, participation and progress.Churn, Earn, Burn and then Return extends this inquiry through a seemingly playful environment comprising sculptures, textiles, illustrative images, text, found and archival objects. Yet in this new installation, inspired by the Monopoly game, the stakes gradually emerge as more sombre. Cycles of labour, accumulation, exhaustion and repetition mo