Fereshteh Toosi | Projects
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offset lithograph business cards
2006
This edition of 1000 business cards was created to address the parallel between recent mobilizations by immigrant workers and the civil rights movement. The card is a direct re-versioning of a calling card created in the 1970s by the KKK that read: "The only reason you are WHITE Today Is Because Your Ancestors Believed & Practiced SEGREGATION." The card is available in issue 5 of artist journal LTTR, or you may print your own by downloading the PDF.
This project has been featured in the following exhibits:
The 2009 Bucharest Biennale in Romania, In a strange land at Calles y Sueños in Chicago and Where Do We Migrate To? a group show curated by Niels van Tomme for the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture in Baltimore and touring to various locations in 2012.
Read more about the concept in AREA magazine's im/migrations issue: http://www.areachicago.org/p/issues/immigrations/only-reason/