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, 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.
Haley Darya Parsa (b. 1996) works in a variety of mediums, engaging in painting, drawing, sculpture, and print. Parsa investigates the ways in which images, objects, and rituals embedded in personal histories can relate to a larger cultural context. Using the devices of repetition and pattern, she is interested in how these forms and images can transform to become more mysterious and impactful. Having grown up in Texas, she places her family and Persian heritage under an intimate and meditative lens, reflecting on ideas of distance, separation, and connection, and thinking about the ways in which we read, identify, and value things. Haley Darya Parsa is based in Brooklyn, New York.
Third Room was started as a DIY project space by Kalaija Mallery in 2017. Since then, it has become a collaborative, accessible go-to for showing experimental and emerging projects by young artists both in the Portland arts scene and nationwide. Third Room aims to support artists in earnest endeavors, to do the most with the least, through an ethic of solidarity and appreciation.
