{"id":5992,"date":"2025-10-15T17:52:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T17:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laserre.ca\/?post_type=artistes-recherche&#038;p=5992"},"modified":"2025-10-22T19:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T19:31:08","slug":"eshan-rafi","status":"publish","type":"artistes-recherche","link":"https:\/\/laserre.ca\/en\/artists-research\/eshan-rafi\/","title":{"rendered":"Eshan Rafi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section av-cghqwo-a11968ff682e617999d412e0fcf5878c main_color avia-section-default avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_section  avia-builder-el-first  avia-bg-style-scroll container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-5992'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-asp6mg-fae9e7402b3422048474ebbe6aea8ca7 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h1><span class=\"ls-page-titre\">Eshan Rafi<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-mgil49e4-6af10fd8a16fbff7bb4c25c6d0428c7b\">\n.avia-image-container.av-mgil49e4-6af10fd8a16fbff7bb4c25c6d0428c7b img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-mgil49e4-6af10fd8a16fbff7bb4c25c6d0428c7b .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-mgil49e4-6af10fd8a16fbff7bb4c25c6d0428c7b av-styling- avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_textblock  ls-home-top-image av-has-copyright av-copyright-always'   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-5973 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-5973 avia_image ' src=\"https:\/\/laserre.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/5-Eshan-Rafi.jpg\" alt='' title='5-Eshan-Rafi'  height=\"1080\" width=\"1920\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laserre.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/5-Eshan-Rafi.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/laserre.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/5-Eshan-Rafi-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/laserre.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/5-Eshan-Rafi-1030x579.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/laserre.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/5-Eshan-Rafi-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/laserre.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/5-Eshan-Rafi-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/laserre.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/5-Eshan-Rafi-480x270.jpg 480w, https:\/\/laserre.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/5-Eshan-Rafi-1500x844.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/laserre.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/5-Eshan-Rafi-705x397.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/div><small class=\"avia-copyright\">Eshan Rafi<\/small><\/div><\/div>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-mgil4juv-eb8e62b43cb330b47af0fb62d783602d '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock ls-font-50'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eshan Rafi is a Toronto\/Tkaronto based artist working across time-based, lens-based and choreographic practices. Their art works deal with the intersection of political events and personal archives, often staging the impossibility of representation. Moving between texts, images, and the body, their performance practice explores translation and transposition across forms.<br \/>\n<\/span>Born in Lahore, they have since lived in Toronto, Montr\u00e9al, Beirut, Berlin, and Chicago. The cultural landscapes of these various places have come to shape their artistic practice today.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-mgilfnqj-7ae00f11cf5c81712c775b11c20fa52c '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock ls-artiste-liens'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><a class=\"ls-artiste-lien ls-artiste-siteweb\" href=\"https:\/\/eshanrafi.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Site web<\/a><a class=\"ls-artiste-lien ls-artiste-instagram\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/eshanraf?igsh=MWpmbjU5bzczbmJ4Zw==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/main><!-- close content main element --><\/div><\/div><div id='av_section_2'  class='avia-section av-8w8rhk-382a2c504bbd3d597af979d6ac98d9c7 main_color avia-section-default avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_section  avia-builder-el-last  avia-bg-style-scroll container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-5992'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-mgilghl6-8f7255eacb7ba4ccd0959d25a84ebf6d '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock ls-font-100'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h2 class=\"center\">MY FATHER&#8217;S IMAGINATION, OR THE EMPIRE IS DROWNING IN BLOOD<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/section>\n<div class='flex_column_table av-7omz54-3f78f5f185ca728ed6eecba7a203c9e3 sc-av_one_full av-equal-height-column-flextable'>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-7omz54-3f78f5f185ca728ed6eecba7a203c9e3\">\n.flex_column.av-7omz54-3f78f5f185ca728ed6eecba7a203c9e3{\nwidth:100%;\nmargin-left:0;\n}\n#top .flex_column_table.av-equal-height-column-flextable.av-7omz54-3f78f5f185ca728ed6eecba7a203c9e3 .av-flex-placeholder{\nwidth:0%;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-7omz54-3f78f5f185ca728ed6eecba7a203c9e3 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-7  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_one_full  ls-font-28 first flex_column_table_cell av-equal-height-column av-align-top  column-top-margin'     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-mgilhtya-569e34d78b22e766157de465f07d731f '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock ls-deux-colonnes-suivi'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">my father&#8217;s imagination, or the empire is drowning in blood,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is an ongoing research project that takes shape as a performance, an exhibition, a workshop, and an artist book. A text spoken by the artist&#8217;s father, in reference to his political activism as a young communist in 1970s Lahore, is the starting point for the question: how to live with and through history?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><\/div><!--close column table wrapper. Autoclose: 1 --><div  class='flex_column av-5xvo9k-27b37afeff0bb384c8c66f47f5dc628a av_one_full  avia-builder-el-9  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_one_half  first flex_column_div  column-top-margin'     ><\/div><div  class='flex_column av-3rmo88-5e1bbb8bb5f4a12517d38f77d8cc5261 av_one_half  avia-builder-el-11  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_one_half  ls-font-28 first flex_column_div  column-top-margin'     ><p><section  class='av_textblock_section av-mgilm352-8463585c31eac640e9d498fd8ca5059a '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock ls-artiste-credits-titre'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>CREDITS<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  class='togglecontainer av-mgilni7n-efebf01b54477d8ad738df91aa1e3f57  avia-builder-el-13  el_after_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-last  toggle_close_all' >\n<section class='av_toggle_section av-mgilmw5w-91bdadf4bae648e14a6fd715b1f009f0'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div role=\"tablist\" class=\"single_toggle\" data-tags=\"{All} \"  ><p data-fake-id='#toggle-id-1' class='toggler   '  itemprop=\"headline\"  role='tab' tabindex='0' aria-controls='toggle-id-1'>Team<span class=\"toggle_icon\"><span class=\"vert_icon\"><\/span><span class=\"hor_icon\"><\/span><\/span><\/p><div id='toggle-id-1' class='toggle_wrap  '  ><div class='toggle_content invers-color '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Creation<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eshan Rafi<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sound Design<br \/>\nErin Thomas<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Performance<br \/>\nAshwaty Chennat<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<section class='av_toggle_section av-mgilnhkn-808ba4227244eb86112b353a8e08f818'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div role=\"tablist\" class=\"single_toggle\" data-tags=\"{All} \"  ><p data-fake-id='#toggle-id-2' class='toggler   '  itemprop=\"headline\"  role='tab' tabindex='0' aria-controls='toggle-id-2'>Creations<span class=\"toggle_icon\"><span class=\"vert_icon\"><\/span><span class=\"hor_icon\"><\/span><\/span><\/p><div id='toggle-id-2' class='toggle_wrap  '  ><div class='toggle_content invers-color '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>The Empire Is Drowning in Blood: Socialist Poster Art From Pakistan, Hopscotch at AGIT, Berlin, 2025<br \/>\nmy father&#8217;s imagination, Roman Susan, Chicago, 2025<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<\/div><\/p><\/div><div  class='flex_column av-2kuoew-c86dcf3ddeaa132d6f31bb285815ef6c av_one_half  avia-builder-el-14  el_after_av_one_half  avia-builder-el-last  flex_column_div  column-top-margin'     ><\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5973,"template":"","class_list":["post-5992","artistes-recherche","type-artistes-recherche","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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