Nuveen Barwari

MEET ME HERE TOMORROW (AGAIN) October 30 - November 17, 2024
Exhibiting Artists: Lauren Baccus, Nuveen Barwari, William Bigby, Constanza Camila Kramer Garfias, Sophia Mainka, Ian O’Hara, Diana Sinclair, Malaika Temba
Curated by: Heike Dempster

2023 fellow in the Skidmore Art’s Department’s Workspace Residency Program Exhibition

Ortega y Gasset Projects
Group Exhibition: Nuveen Barwari, Rubens Ghenov, Sean Heiser, and Maria Walker
Curated by Zahar Vaks
October 22 - Dec 11, 2022

Gulistan, MFA Thesis Exhibition 2022, Ewing Gallery, Knoxville, TN

Gulbarin, the Red Arrow Gallery, Nashville, TN 2021

During the Artist reception on November 6, Barwari was joined by Pel Doski, a Nashville based poet for a live reading, in response to the work. 

Gul Barin: A Smell so Sweet by Pel Doski

My grandmother has a sunflower field

She grows them so big,

bigger than my head!

And so tall…So tall I sometimes get lost!

Me and my friends,

we would run under her suns

and laugh a lot.

What a pretty sight --

so bright and so sunny.

But today I am lost. 

I feel sleepy.

Like I'm surrounded by lavender.

There's a smell so intoxicating.

It smells so sweet,

and I am drunk.

Planes overhead go back and forth, and

they keep dropping flowers, and

they smell so sweet, so

we run to catch them.

I want to go to sleep 

Under this shower of flowers.

They smell so sweet!

Sweeter than apples, and

brighter than the sun.

I close my eyes slowly, and

imagine lilacs are raining on me.

They smell so sweet!

It's rotting me from the inside.

I think I'll take a nap,

here with all of my friends.

We're in a field of daisies, and

it smells so sweet!

When I'm dead and decayed 

and rotted and ugly,

just cover me in tulips and

douse me in nectar,

a nectar that smells sweet.

Place me on my father's rug,

so pretty and clean.

It smells so sweet!

Drape me in thin fabrics.

Cover my eyes gently

just enough so I can see,

just like when I’d peak around my 

aunt’s dress, shly at our mehvan.

When my mother howls

at god's shrewd and unyielding hand,

give her a bouquet of chrysanthemums.

(Ones that smell sweet)

and wrap it in a ribbon.

Have my wake in a field of poppies,

white and pretty and spattered with red.

The poet's daffodil for me, please

and a lily for my sister.

Look at all of us,

so beautiful and neat.

Rows and rows of roses

clipped still young and thornless.

Look at us children of fire,

dancing on a mountain side.

Billowing in the wind like

My grandmother’s red dress.

Sweeter than tahin.

Brighter than sunflowers.

So pretty and so sweet.

Fall 2021, guerrilla art install, at the A&A building, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

2021 install shots of

Evîna Me Bê Sînore
our love is without borders

at Le Swamp gallery in Knoxville, TN

Gul Baran/Gul Barin soft sculpture 2021, guerilla install in the A&A building at the University of Tennessee Knoxville

“Carpet Bombing”, Gallery 1010, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 2020

“No Fly Zone” installation at the Coop Gallery, Nashville, TN 2020

2 half truths make 1 new truth

2020 installation in my parents upstairs living room

“Tiny Bomb”, studio installation 2020

LIT RUG install in the A&A building 2019 , UT Knoxville

THE BLUE ROOM INSTALLATION, TSU, NASHVILLE, TN 2019