Ahmadi further explores this narrative through the medium of video, in Ascend, a short animation with sound. On the far right of the image, attendants hold ambiguous, round objects in tribute (which could be either bombs or balloons), their faceless visages pointed up towards a third grouping: a winged character in an uncertain narrative, holding up the ascending figure of a little boy. On the left-hand side, a figure sits upon a golden throne-itself a visual trope in Ahmadi’s work-invoking both a tradition of Iranian hospitality and a symbol of autocratic rule. In The Knot, a vast 40” by 60” watercolor and ink on paper, figures float on an aqueous green background. Reversal, contrast, and the inhuman, widening gulf of inequality are all essential to the complexity of juxtapositions, which mark Ahmadi’s delicate and indomitable body of work. “Ahmadi’s painterly language,” comments scholar Talinn Grigor in an essay on the artist’s work, “transforms monkeys into despots, thrones into bigoted states, bubbles into bombs, paint into blood, and hospitality into global violence.” Ahmadi funneled her outrage into the production of this new body of work: playing upon an alliteration of the boy’s name in ancient Arabic, meaning ‘high one’, or ‘to ascend'.īlood, bombs, and the ties that bind in violence, appear once and again in the artist’s oeuvre, manifesting a visual language of seductive indeterminacy, whose ambivalence points both towards the horror of violence and oppression while also presenting the suggestion, however macabre, of a reversal of power-or at very least signification-for better or worse. It is a death that spoke to the artist, not sentimentally but symbolically: the sign of a closure of the promise of the European-cum-American experiment of universal rights or justice.
The three-year-old and his family were refugees, fleeing the escalating humanitarian crisis in Syria. September 2, 2015: the body of a small boy, later identified as Aylan Kurdi, washed ashore on the pristine banks of the Mediterranean Sea, drowned. Attractive and repulsive, terrible and yet enrobed in playful delight: each of Ahmadi’s complex and indeterminate paintings and objects, replete with violence both real and imagined, daringly address subjects of terrorism, refugees, global capitalism, and corruption-all through symbolic depictions of sublime perpetrators and the most ordinary, innocent, helpless, victim(s). There are so many other dispensaries to work for or purchase from that are really wanting the cannabis culture to be maintained and have their patients, customers and employees first in mind.(NEW YORK) February 2017-FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE-Leila Heller Gallery is proud to present Ascend, an exhibition of new works by Iranian-American artist Shiva Ahmadi, whose ethereal, evocative use of the aesthetic modality of traditional Persian painting ensnares the viewer in complicit landscapes of violence, producing a potent and poetic critique of contemporary politics both foreign and domestic. I heard it from a top management employee that they will rebrand their own product just to make customers think it’s something else and buy it. I witnessed the raise price on a competitor product by $6 (it had been the same price for months and a top seller) and lower the price on their own brand just to trick customers into buying theirs.
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No wage progression plan, no schedule for reviews, zero training when hired especially related to company docs and policies. unfair wages between employees of the same level (people who have been there 8+months making less than a new hire, that same new hire making less than the next new hire and having way more experience) Not allowed to take tips but the pay is HORRIBLE. Constantly changing policies, but not telling everyone. High turnover rate of employees from management down.
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