“Zār - Beyond the Wind”, a solo exhibit of photography and video by Ghazal Abbasi, opens on December 4th and runs to December 26th.  Ghazal Abbasi is an emerging conceptual photographer, visual artist and poet based in Shiraz, Iran.  “Zār - Beyond the Wind”, featuring photography and video based on the traditional Southern Iranian Zār ritual, explores how modernity and censorship shape personal and collective identity.  Working through ritual symbolism and visual contrast - nature against brutalism, silence against expression - she constructs images that probe the psychological weight of contemporary life under social and political constraint.  Abbasi is the recipient of a Pilot Micro-Grant from the Crazy Peach Art Foundation in London, in support of the Zār Project.  Her series, including Drunk and Insane, Connections, Living Corpses, and Dance of Sorrow, have been shown at institutions such as Foam Museum in Amsterdam and Designmuseum Danmark in Copenhagen. Her work has additionally been published in Lens Magazine, Glamour Affair (Italy), and The PPL Book (France), and exhibited in group shows across Belgium, Indonesia, Russia, the UAE, Paris, and India.  “Zār - Beyond the Wind” is Abbasi’s first solo exhibit in the United States.  D2 gallery, 310 W.First Ave., Spokane, WA 99201.  11 to 5:30 Wednesdays & Thursdays, 11 to 6 Fridays & Saturdays.