Haley Darya Parsa: Sharing Suns
Third Room, Online
Cyanotypes on cotton sateen, hand-dyed muslin cotton, oil pastel on paper
2020
Third Room is pleased to present Sharing Suns, an online exhibition of new work by Haley Darya Parsa. This exhibition was installed in Dallas, Texas, where the artist was quarantined during the global pandemic, and is now presented online on Third Room’s website with plans to be shown at the gallery’s Portland, Oregon space in Winter 2020.
Originally planned to debut in Portland, Oregon, Sharing Suns features works made during isolation in Dallas, Texas, the artist’s hometown. Works included are new hand-dyed fabrics, cyanotypes, and drawings. Parsa sourced materials from her house and her surrounding landscapes to create each cyanotype, a photographic printing process activated by light. Sunlight becomes a direct material.
Behind Sharing Suns are ideas about distance, family, the Texas summer heat, global warming, immigration, and the ways we all stay connected. “Sharing” implies active, thoughtful participation. Living on the same planet and relying on the same natural resources comes with responsibility–not just environmentally and geopolitically but also socially and culturally. In the midst of this global lockdown, as many of us are isolated from each other and away from the sun, the sun also symbolizes hope, growth, renewal, and what is on the other side.
As a part of the online exhibition, the artist is offering an exclusive edition of riso-printed zines, also available online for free download, that feature works from the show and an interview with Carlotta Wald (Berlin, Germany).
Sharing Suns is the artist’s first show at Third Room. Special thanks to Shotgun Gallery in Dallas, Texas.