NEW
YORK,
NY.- Video work by
artist and filmmaker Shoja Azari will be on view at Leila
Taghinia-Milani Heller (LTMH)
Gallery from May 4 though 27,
2010. SHOJA AZARI: ICONS, the artist’s first solo exhibition in New York
City,
will feature six new video works, which examine the role of saints and
heroes in
modern society. A fully illustrated catalogue with essays by Sam
Bardaouil, Dr.
Hamid Dabashi, and Benjamin Genocchio will accompany the
exhibition.  The Icons
series, 2010, is comprised of five video works and five photographs on
light
boxes that appropriate popular posters of saints in Iran. Inspired by
how
Renaissance painters humanized religious figures, Azari seeks to make
icons
resonate in a new way.