Rubble, blanket
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Responding to repeated images of rubble in Gaza interwoven with floral blankets, this site-specific installation also references Arundhati Roy’s novel of the same title. Made in the shadow of Iran’s regime’s atrocities against its own citizens, the red blanket takes on added symbolic weight.
I was born in Virginia to activist parents fighting against the shah of Iran. My family migrated to Iran in the wake of the revolution. Growing up in post-1979 Tehran in the face of seismic geopolitical shifts, I experienced uprooting, disconnection, and ultimately separation from my father. In my art I am compelled to decode the ways in which these events have marked me, creating a personal lexicon of longing.
Forgetting and relearning both English and Persian multiple times has made language a fascinating reference in my work. Persian poetry, as well as biographical text investigating a landscape of longing, have provided a valuable context for examining language formally. These investigations include physically building words and letters with a multitude of materials such as wax, paper, wooden cubes, and concrete. In doing so, I use architecture, book arts, and installation to distort and blur the lines between design, craft, and fine art.
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